Integrative Psychotherapy

Table of Contents (preliminary): Integrative Psychotherapy A Feedback-Driven Dynamic Systems Approach Gunter Schiepek, Heiko Eckert, Benjamin Aas, Sebastian Wallot & Anna Wallot Foreword 1 Why Is It so Challenging to Define Systemic Psychotherapy? 2 The End of Therapeutic Schools 2.1 What Do Interventions and Therapeutic Techniques Really Contribute? 2.2 Laymen in Psychotherapy 2.3 The Dodo Bird Effect 2.4 Allegiance With One's Own Approach 2.5 Sudden Changes 2.6 The Heroic Client 2.7 Should We Follow Manuals? 2.8 The Therapist 2.9 The Therapeutic Relationship 2.10 Psychotherapy as a Complex System 3 Psychotherapy as Providing Conditions for Self-Organization 3.1 What Is Synergetics? 3.2 How Does Self-Organization Work? 3.3 Neuronal and Mental Self-Organization 4 Conditions for Support of Self-Organization: The Generic Principles 4.1 Stability Conditions 4.2 Identification of Relevant System Patterns 4.3 Sense of Significance 4.4 Control Parameters and Motivation for Change 4.5 Destabilization and Amplification of Fluctuations 4.6 Cairos, Resonance, and Synchronization 4.7 Purposeful Symmetry Breaking 4.8 Stabilization of New Patterns 5 Synergetic Process Management 6 The Synergetic Navigation System (SNS) 6.1 Ambulatory Assessment and Real-Time Monitoring in Psychotherapy 6.2 Functionalities of the SNS 7 Case Study 7.1 Problems and Resources 7.2 Therapeutic Progress With Order Transition 7.3 System Modeling 8 Entanglement of Monitoring and Therapy 8.1 Therapeutic Effects of Feedback Systems 8.2 SNS-Based Therapy Sessions 8.3 Reactive Measures 9 Conceptual Developments 9.1 Dynamic Pattern Recognition and Process Regulation as Components of Therapeutic Practice 9.2 Evidence-Based Practice and Relative Rational Justification of Treatments 9.3 The Relation Between Common Factors and Generic Principles 9.4 The Model of Self-Organization as a Synthesis of the Medical Model and the Common Factors Model 10 What Are Integrative SystemicTherapies? 10.1

Günter Schiepek ist Professor für Psychologie an den Universitäten Krems und Bamberg und Leiter des Forschungsprojekts 'Synergetik der Psychotherapie' am Universitätsklinikum der RWTH Aachen sowie Direktor des Center for Complex Systems (Stuttgart). Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die Synergetik und Dynamik nichtlinearer Systeme in der Psychologie und in den Neurowissenschaften, Prozess-Outcome-Forschung in der Psychotherapie, Neurobiologie der Psychotherapie, Computerbasiertes Real-Time Monitoring in verschiedenen Anwendungsfeldern, Sozialpsychologie, Management und Kompetenzforschung. Schiepek ist Wissenschaftlicher Beirat zahlreicher Institute, Verbände und Fachzeitschriften und hat zahlreiche internationale und deutschsprachige Publikationen veröffentlicht.