Resolution of dilemmas by personal construct psychotherapy

Like other constructivist approaches, Personal Construct Theory (PCT) views human activity as a meaning creating process. What human organisms do, is informed by the way they construe events, and in turn assign meaning to those events. Symptoms are a rare, but legitimate part of their activity. They...

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Autores: Feixas i Viaplana, Guillem, Saúl Gutiérrez, Luis Ángel
Formato: capítulo de livro
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/26883
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/26883
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Psicoteràpia
Psychotherapy
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Resumo:Like other constructivist approaches, Personal Construct Theory (PCT) views human activity as a meaning creating process. What human organisms do, is informed by the way they construe events, and in turn assign meaning to those events. Symptoms are a rare, but legitimate part of their activity. They challenge our everyday conceptions regarding human behaviour. From a personal construct perspective, however, they are not an exception to the laws of behaviour, or, an error of nature but activities embedded in a meaning making process.