Michael J. Mahoney, PhD, received his doctorate at Stanford University. He is presently professor of psychology at the University of North Texas and at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco, CA. Honored as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the World Academy of Art and Science, he has contributed pioneering research on human change processes and the psychology of peak performance.

• Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Part I: IntroductionTheoretical Developments in the Cognitive and Constructive Psychotherapies, Michael J. MahoneyChanging Conceptions of Cognitive Behavior Modification: Retrospect and Prospect, Donald Meichenbaum Part II: Cognitive TherapyCognitive Therapy: Past, Present, and Future, Aaron T. BeckAn Appraisal of Cognitive Therapy, Clive J. Robins and Adele M. Hayes Part III: Rational-Emotive TherapyReflections on Rational-Emotive Therapy, Albert EllisAn Appraisal of Rational-Emotive Therapy, David A. F. Haaga and Gerald C. Davison Part IV: The Constructive PsychotherapiesA Constructivist Outline of Human Knowing Processes, Vittorio F. GuidanoConstructive Metatheory and the Nature of Mental Representation, Michael J. Mahoney, H. Martin Miller, and Giampiero ArcieroPersonal Construct Therapy and the Relation Between Cognition and Affect, Kenneth W. SewellCognitive Narrative Psychotherapy: The Hermeneutic Construction of Alternative Meanings, Oscar F. GoncalvesAn Appraisal of Constructivist Psychotherapies: Contexts and Challenges, Robert A. NeimeyerThe Cognitive and Constructive Psychotherapies: Contexts and Challenges, Michael J. Mahoney Index