Liberating Alternatives to Imprisoning Stories: The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Discourse of Disorder A review of Neimeyer, R.A., & Raskin, J.D. (2000) Constructions of Disorder: Meaning-Making Frameworks for Psychotherapy. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

Abstract

There comes a point in every discipline at which the community of researchers, theorists or practitioners needs to reflect on the ontological status of the phenomena that constitute their discursive practices. Not posing this question explicitly leads only to the hidden assumption of an implicit answer. As far as psychology is concerned, the key question concerns the “level of existence” of the phenomena to which psychological knowledge is applied.