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Unfounded trust: a constructivist meditation
1Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA. neimeyer@memphis.edu
American Journal of Psychotherapy
|October 20, 2001
Abstract:
From a postmodern standpoint, all trust is ultimately unfounded, in the sense that no authoritative theoretical, empirical or practical foundation exists to ground a unified, explicit, and justified framework for psychotherapeutic practice. Following a constructivist meditation on these themes, I offer five playful prescriptions for addressing this predicament that suggest a provisional way forward in a terrain that offers no firm footholds having bedrock certainty.