A dialectical constructivist approach to experiential change.

Abstract

and then apply it to understanding experiential change processes in psychotherapy. Dialectics in its most essential form is rational analysis based on the splitting of a totality into its contradictory parts and the examination of the parts as they relate to each other (Lenin, 1915(Lenin, /1977. The totality of interest here is the dynamic system of a client's psychological processes. The contradictory parts are the different psychological processes that, when brought into contact, often interact to produce therapeutic transformations, selfdevelopment, or novelty through a dialectical synthesis of the components. Dialectical constructivism therefore explains human functioning and development in terms of the relations between parts.The dialectic with which we are most concerned is that involved in the type of construction of meaning characteristic of life-engaged 169

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