redecision

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ decision.

Noun

redecision (countable and uncountable, plural redecisions)

1. The act or result of redeciding.
   • 2007, Gareth T. Davies, Reforming the Relationship between National and European Courts:

     This would refer the case back to the national court for redecision if this was so.

   • 2009, Securities And Exchange Commission, In the Matter of Thomas C. Bridge, James D. Edge, and Jeffrey K. Robles., →ISBN:

     Commission Rules of Practice 231(b) and 230(h) provide that, even if Respondents were entitled to the information sought, which we do not find that they were, no rehearing or redecision of a proceeding already heard or decided is required, unless Respondents establish that the Division's failure to make a document available or to turn over a statement was not harmless error.

   • 2010, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, The Works of Thomas Carlyle, →ISBN, page 15:

     Invited by the rigorous fact itself ; which will one day, and that perhaps soon, demand practical decision or redecision of it from us, — with enormous penalty if we decide it wrong !

2. (psychotherapy) A type of therapy developed by Mary and Robert Goulding in 1979 as a form of transactional analysis.
   • 2002, Keith Tudor, Transactional Analysis Approaches to Brief Therapy, →ISBN:

     Unlike some social constructionists, however, the redecision therapist does not wait for a story to emerge in the therapeutic dialogue, or limit her/himself to suggesting a new story by highlighting exceptions and times when the patient did not follow accustomed patterns, nor does s/he depend primarily on the use of directives. Rather, the redecision therapist guides the therapeutic process but allows the patient to determine the content.

   • 2013, Michael F. Hoyt, Interviews With Brief Therapy Experts, →ISBN, page 121:

     When I first met Bob Goulding he was presenting some of his ideas about redecision therapy at the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in Phoenix in 1985.

   • 2013, Ian Stewart, Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action, →ISBN:

     I next decided to invite John into redecision work, and he agreed.

3. (psychotherapy) A revision of a debilitating childhood decision that is made by an adult in the Child ego state as part of redecision therapy.
   • 2012, Marvin J. Fine, Systematic Intervention with Disturbed Children, →ISBN, page 198:

     The following transcript is an example of an ego state dialogue which ends in a redecision.

   • 2014, Karen G Lewis, Variations on Teaching and Supervising Group Therapy, →ISBN:

     This redecision gets her out of the victim position as long as it is made from the Child Ego State.