Theorizing About Constructivist Therapy. Review of “Constructivist Psychotherapy: A Narrative Hermeneutic Approach” by Gabriele Chiari & Maria Laura Nuzzo. Routledge, London, 2010.

Raskin, Jonathan D.

Jonathan D. Raskin

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Upshot: Gabriele Chiari and the late Maria Laura Nuzzo’s new book, Constructivist Psychotherapy: A Narrative Hermeneutic Approach, is a densely packed little tome that marks the most fully developed effort so far to present a model of personal construct psychotherapy that theoretically incorporates aspects of radical constructivism, narrative psychology, and social constructionism. The theoretically inclined will not be disappointed.

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Raskin J. D. (2010) Theorizing about constructivist therapy. Review of “constructivist psychotherapy: A narrative hermeneutic approach” by gabriele chiari & maria laura nuzzo. Routledge, london, 2010.. Constructivist Foundations 5(2): 94-96. http://constructivist.info/5/2/094

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