By David A. Winter, Linda Viney
ISBN-10: 0470713763
ISBN-13: 9780470713761
ISBN-10: 1861563949
ISBN-13: 9781861563941
Within the part century that has handed due to the fact that George Kelly recommend his psychology of private constructs, there were significant advances within the type of psychotherapy derived from his thought. This ebook provides advancements within the own build conception standpoint on mental issues and their therapy within the context of latest matters in psychotherapy; illustrates the various diversity of private build psychotherapy ways which were devised for quite a lot of medical difficulties; and shows the becoming proof base for those approaches. It comprises contributions from many of the best overseas practitioners within the box. it is going to not just be of curiosity to psychotherapists, different clinicians, lecturers, and scholars who're already accustomed to own build thought or constructivism, but additionally to those that are searching for a healing process that is integrative yet has a transparent theoretical purpose, and which will mix humanism with rigour.
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Symptom coherence. Because presenting problems are tied to the ways clients construe, DOBT posits that even the most dumbfounding symptoms are coherent and meaningful - although this meaningful coherence may be initially difficult to spot. Client presenting problems are seen as tied to their ways of tacitly construing themselves and their relationships, so when clients lack conscious awareness of their own most core ordering processes, they too are befuddled by their own symptoms. Therapy becomes a means to assist clients in gaining insight into those constructions that they have created for themselves.
Some might argue, consistent with a relativist interpretation of personal construct psychology, that such a notion is inappropriate, a remnant of mechanistic theories and contrary to its central philosophy, which focuses on considering alternative perspectives. However, we do not believe that all constructions are as ‘good’ as each other, a position that Kelly also adopted. Indeed, we do not see how therapists can proceed in therapy without some broad aims, however much the specifics arise from the particular collaborative relationship with the client.
This form of therapy allows clients to take an experimental approach to exploring their relationships and experiences; that is, the therapist, in accordance with the client, develops hypotheses that may be tested for validity in the client's everyday life. Fixed-role therapy was originally meant to be quite brief and rather intense; to be carried out over a two-week period in which the client is asked to take on a different role or, in other words, assume a new identity. Kelly intended for this alternative role to be so pervasive that clients would be asked to forget who they were for the entire two weeks and to act, think, talk, eat, dream and approach all 12 Personal Construct Psychotherapy: Advances in Theory, Practice and Research relationships and every aspect of life the way the fiued-role character would (Epting, 1984; Kelly, 1955/1991a).