The term ‘teleology’ was coined by the philosopher Christian Wolff in his Latin treatise of 1728 and he defined it as indicating the part of natural philosophy that explains the ends, or purposes, of things. 1 It has been used to describe a prominent feature of the theological views of ...

The relationship between systems theory and the study of perception is one of critical im- portance to our understanding of the changing nature of human cognitive maps at the dawn of the 21st century. The conceptual frameworks that embed our perceptions and their interpretations, and condition the depth of our ...

Přemítání o věcech, jevech a lidech kolem nás a nakonec i o sobě sama - tedy o tom jak uvažujeme, co prožíváme a jak se chováme - může být pro mnohé procesem značně nesnadným. Nebývá jednoduché odpovědět na otázky, které se během vlastních úvah vynořují: Vidím skutečnost ...

Systemic thinking is central to the specialty of couple and family psychology (CFP). Eleven applications of systemic thinking (perceptual and cognitive structuring processes) are described to characterize the way couple and family psychologists think about research and practice. The application of systemic thinking to research is described in light of ...

Systemic family therapy involves the application of general systems theory principles to explain how pathology is triggered and maintained by dysfunctional patterns of communication within ...

Post-modernism is a term that is omnipresent in the media, academic circles and contemporary culture. It is also a term that has caused substantial consternation among systemic family therapists. Systemic family therapy traces its origins from the 1950s, and there are currently several different models contained within the systemic paradigm. ...

We all have ideas about trauma, however the International Classification of post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) defines a traumatic event as something outside the range of usual human experience (American Psychiatric Association, 1987). Because trauma has this quality of being both part of common experience and a unique event, it ...

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You don't have to like feedlot cattle to read this. Come to think of it, you don't even have to like epistemology. I could probably have called it: An Attempt to Cope with Problems which Arise when You are Doing Applied Research - or even: Trying to Cope with Life.

Our title refers to that aspect of psychotherapy which involves the interaction between the client’s position (their perspective, values, strongly held beliefs, as they pertain to a problem) and the clinician’s therapeutic stance. We have observed that expert therapists not only execute a model of psychotherapy but also adopt “attitudes” ...

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Historie rodinné terapie od Palo Alto do Milána

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