Advances in Personal Construct Psychology

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Advances in Personal Construct Psychology New Directions and Perspectives

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Robert A. Neimeyer, ed., Greg J. Neimeyer, ed.

ISBN: 0-275-97294-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97294-3

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328 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2002

List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £72.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Advances in Personal Construct Psychology

Description: This volume offers an authoritative review of leading scholarship in personal construct theory and related approaches, giving fresh analyses of problems such as the construction of selfhood, processes of meaning-making in substance abuse and attention deficit disorder, and the dynamics of insight. Methodologically oriented readers will find critical reappraisals of repertory grid measures, as well as new analytic strategies for textual analysis.

Readers from a range of disciplines including clinical and counseling practice, organizational consultation, education, research design and methodology and the social sciences in general will find in this volume a sophisticated exploration of a host of constructionist and social constructionist concerns. Those include debates between realism and relativism, issues in dialectical and relational self-development, and psychotherapeutic strategies. The social construction of mental disorders and therapeutic interventions is also addressed.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Theoretical Frontiers
The Person as a Motivated Storyteller: Valuation Theory and the Self-Confrontation Method by Hubert J. M. Hermans
Insight: Transcending the Obvious by Christopher D. Stevens and Beverly M. Walker
The Relational Basis of Personal Construct Psychology by Dusan Stojnov and Trevor Butt
Methodological Advances
Textual Analysis of Therapeutic Discourse by Manuel Villegas
Is There a Madness in Our Method? The Effects of Repertory Grid Variations on Measures of Construct System Structure by Greg J. Neimeyer, et al.
Deconstructing Disorder
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Substance Use and "Addiction": Constructivist Perspectives by Mark Burrell
The Poetic Construction of AD/HD: A Diagnostic Fable by James C. Mancuso, Glenn A. Yelich, and Theodore R. Sarbin
Evaluating Personal Construct and Psychodynamic Group Work with Adolescent Offenders and Nonoffenders by Linda L. Viney and Rachel M. Henry

About the Author: ROBERT A. NEIMEYER is Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis.

GREG J. NEIMEYER is Director of Training for the Counseling Psychology Program the University of Florida, Gainesville.


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