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In Constructivist Therapy, Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer demonstrates this client-centered, empathic form of therapy, showing how a psychotherapist might find the narrative threads that will help troubled individuals reweave the fabric of their lives. In this session, Dr. Neimeyer "leads from one step behind," helping a client whose son has died find a way to deal with the issues that she senses must be addressed. Watch the client invite Dr. Neimeyer to take the next necessary steps in allowing her to elaborate her relation to the problem, to articulate the deeply personal revelations that must find words and expression, and to look for hopeful possibilities.
Constructivist therapy is more of a theory of knowledge than a system of therapy. Constructivist theory holds that humans are meaning makers, and in a very real sense the meaning we create in turn creates our experience of the world. Thus, constructivists focus on the meaning clients attribute to their world and the ways these shape and constrain clients' sense of themselves, their relationships, and their difficulties.
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is director of psychotherapy in the Department of Psychology at the University of Memphis. He also maintains an active private practice in Memphis, Tennessee. Since completing his doctoral training in clinical psychology at the University of Nebraska in 1982, Dr. Neimeyer has published 20 books, including Constructivism in Psychotherapy and Constructions of Disorder (both with the American Psychological Association). The author of over 200 articles and book chapters, he is currently most interested in developing a narrative and constructivist framework for psychotherapy with special relevance to the experience of loss. Editor of the Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Dr. Neimeyer has been granted the Distinguished Research Award, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Eminent Faculty Award by the University of Memphis and has been elected a fellow of Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.
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