Exploring the Sphere of Between: The Adoption of a Framework of Complementarity and its Implications for a Constructivist Psychotherapy

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 257-275

  Chiari, Gabriele ^a   Nuzzo, Maria Laura ^b  

^a Centre for Studies in Cognitive Psychotherapy (CESIPc)   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre of Constructivist Psychology and Psychotherapy (CPPC)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

complementarity; hermeneutic constructivism; personal construct theory; psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646399420     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354306062538     Document Type: Article

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