Table of Contents

I. THEORETICAL PREMISES.
1. Selfhood Processes: An Ontological Approach.
2. The Differentiation of Self-Boundaries.
3. The Self-Organization of Personal Meaning Dimensions.
4. Self-Boundaries and Lifespan Development.

II. PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLES.
5. A Post-Rationalist Framework for Cognitive Therapy.
6. Preparing the Clinical and Interpersonal Context.
7. Construing the Therapeutic Setting.
8. Undertaking the Developmental Analysis.
9. Concluding Remarks.

About the Author

Vittorio F. Guidano, MD, founded the Rome Center for Cognitive Therapy, where he serves as Staff Psychiatrist, and is a founding member of the Italian Association for Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. From 1976 to 1986 he was Assistant Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychopathology at the School of Medicine of the University of Rome.

Reviews

This is a creative and thought-provoking work, rich in theoretical ideas and clinical insights, which are well illustrated with extensive case material. At the heart of Guidano's approach lies a passionate and rigorous commitment to a constructivist epistemology and to a view of human beings as self-organizing, self-determining agents, capable of ongoing growth and differentiation. A stimulating and original contribution. --Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D.
- Guidano provides psychologists, and therapists in particular, a fresh way to conceptualize the role of affect in human experience. --Contemporary Psychology, 2/3/1991