Self-Organization in Psychotherapy

- By Way of Introduction: Can We Make a Non-Classical Psychology?
- A Metaphor from Quantum Physics and from Phenomenology
- The Weakness of the 'Inside' Tradition: the Method Fades Out
- The Weakness of the 'Outside' Tradition: the Object Fades Out
- Object-Method Complementarity and the Relation between both Traditions
- The Domain of a Non-Classical Psychology
- The Inaccessibility of Psychotherapy to Research
- Second Order Cybernetics and Self-Organizing Systems
- Self-Organization in Psychotherapy
- References
- Life, the Multiverse and Everything; an Introduction to the Ideas of Humberto Maturana
- Life: Love and Languaging
- Conversations as Structural Perturbations
- The Multiverse: Expanding the Universe through the Ontology of the Observer
- Problems with Perception: How is it that We Make Mistakes?
- Operations of Distinction
- Brief Example: The Family as a System
- And Every Thing is Structure
- Implications of Maturana's Theory for Psychotherapy
- Concluding Comments
- References
- Gestalt Psychology, Gestalt Therapy and the Theory of Autopoiesis
- Definition of Gestalt
- Gestalt Theory and the Theory of Autopoiesis
- The Goal of Gestalt Therapy
- The Gestalt Therapy Process
- The Relation Client - Therapist
- References
- Toward a More Detailed Understanding of Self-Organizing Processes in Psychotherapy
- A Framework for the Description of Change in Psychotherapy: The Selective Activation Model
- The Enactment of a Cognitive System: The Transition From its Inert to its Active Form
- The Formation of New Possibilities
- Self-Referential Experiences
- How does the Enacted "Function" Become an Internal Function?
- Change in the Client's Structures - without a Therapist?
- The Model of the Negative Class
- Discussion
- References
- Anticipating Autopoiesis: Personal Construct Psychology and Self-Organizing Systems
- Introduction: Varieties of Constructivism
- Self-Organizing Systems
- The Personal Construct System