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Constructivist Psychotherapy : Distinctive Features CBT Distinctive Features Series Neimeyer, Robert A. Taylor & Francis Routledge 0415442338 9780415442336 9780203882405 English Personal construct therapy, Constructivism (Psychology) , Psychotherapy--methods, Personal Construct Theory. 2009 RC489.P46N45 2009eb 616.89/14 Personal construct therapy, Constructivism (Psychology) , Psychotherapy--methods, Personal Construct Theory.

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Page i Constructivist Psychotherapy Constructivist psychotherapy focuses on the meaning that clients attribute to their world, and the way that this shapes their life and contributes to their difficulties. In this book, Robert A. Neimeyer, a leading figure in the field, provides a clear and accessible explanation of the key features of this approach. Constructivist Psychotherapy: Distinctive Features concentrates on the 30 key commitments that distinguish constructivism from other cognitive behavioral perspectives. Divided into two parts—Theory and Practice—this straightforward book is illustrated throughout with case material and recent research findings. Neimeyer provides us with a fresh perspective on familiar material, together with a clear, concise introduction to material that the reader may be less familiar with, making this book a valuable text for professionals in training as well as a source of new ideas for practising therapists of constructivist psychotherapy. Robert A.Neimeyer is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Memphis and the editor of the Journal of Constructivist Psychology. He also maintains an active private practice in Memphis, Tennessee.



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Page ii Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) occupies a central position in the move towards evidence-based practice and is frequently used in the clinical environment. Yet there is no one universal approach to CBT and clinicians speak of first-, second-, and even third-wave approaches. This series provides straightforward, accessible guides to a number of CBT methods, clarifying the distinctive features of each approach. The series editor, Windy Dryden, successfully brings together experts from each discipline to summarise the 30 main aspects of their approach divided into theoretical and practical features. The CBT Distinctive Features Series will be essential reading for psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists of all orientations who want to learn more about the range of new and developing cognitive-behavioural approaches. Titles in the series: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Frank Bond and Paul Flaxman Beck’s Cognitive Therapy by Frank Wills Behavioral Activation by Jonathan Kanter, Andrew Busch and Laura Rusch Constructivist Psychotherapy by Robert A.Neimeyer Dialectical Behaviour Therapy by Michaela Swales and Heidi Heard Metacognitive Therapy by Peter Fisher and Adrian Wells Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy by Rebecca Crane Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy by Windy Dryden Schema Therapy by Jeffrey Young and Eshkol Rafaeli For further information about this series please visit: www.routledgementalhealth.com/cbt-distinctivefeatures



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Page iii Constructivist Psychotherapy Distinctive Features Robert A.Neimeyer LONDON AND NEW YORK



Page x Room Even the chair defines you by your absence. It lifts its arms to embrace yours, opens its lap to cup your form in its soft shape. Without you, it is an empty hand. On the footstool the books mill in their randomness, forget their call to common purpose. The pens on your desk have bled dry of words. Your tablet is a tombstone without inscription. This is how we are cast by the long light of your shadow, persist in our objective irrelevance. Collectively, we have lost the threads of memory, of intention, dropped the beads from time’s limp string. The clock’s pulse measures the silence like a tin heart, registers only hours since, never until . Slowly we are hollowing ourselves through our grief, as rocks are carved by sand in a hard wind. When we have let go of enough of what we were  



Page xi    and grow perfect in our nothingness, we will at last find an end to the yearning, and finally have room for you.



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