With fifty years having passed since Gregory Bateson and his colleagues published their famous paper, ‘Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia’ , it is an opportune time to review the theory and its clinical relevance today. Bateson’s team began with an interest in how the identity and functioning ...

| The Double Bind Theory
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This paper introduces the idea of, and necessity for, a 'third-order cybernetics'. It does this through the critique and problematisation of the ontology of the observer as elaborated within a second-order cybernetics. The necessity for this third-order is directly generated from our work as strategy consultants and our needs to ...

| Ecology of Mind

Während unserer gemeinsamen Ausbildung in systemischer Familientherapie am Institut für Familientherapie Weinheim stellten wir fest, dass zwar die Ausbildung häufig in Gruppen stattfindet, bisher jedoch praktisch keine Veröffentlichung über systemische Gruppentherapie vorlag. So entstand während einer  Livesupervision 1996 in Gießen der Wunsch, gemeinsam eine ambulante systemische Gruppentherapie durchzuführen und darüber ...

Systemic family and couples therapy (SFCT) has evolved into a variety of forms to meet the needs of the people who come for therapy. Our clients differ not only by bringing the full range of psychological and relationship difficulties and the variety that our society has imaginatively created in family ...

I am very pleased with the opportunity to make some remarks at this second National Conference on Science and Mathematics Education Reform. Every participant here this morning is committed to change; each of you understands the need for systemic reform; and each of you has a genuine desire to help ...

In this section I'll describe the major "faces of constructivism" separately, because it is more helpful for me to write about them in that way, and hopefully for you to read about them, although perhaps both will be in a non-linear fashion.

| Dougiamas
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After 45 years of doing therapy, I know one thing for sure, and that’s that I don’t know much for sure.

| Psychotherapy Networker

My very first meeting with Gianfranco was in the summer of 1982 when he visited Dublin as part of a holiday in Ireland with his daughter. My colleague, Nollaig Byrne had met him previously at the Ackerman Institute in New York. They had been by Monica McGoldrick, our mutual friend. ...

Mainstream positivist science is still strongly rooted in the presuppositions of the empirico-logicism, which we recall here: 1) The first is the pre-existence of space and time. 2) The second is materialist realism: there is a reality out there, independent and separable from the observer, and ...

Solution-focused brief therapy interactions are designed to facilitate change by assisting clients in clarifying how they would like their lives to be different, inviting new descriptions of what is possible in clients’ lives, and by identifying resources that clients might use in changing their lives. There is a sense, then, ...