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 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 ...

Criticisms have recently been voiced of constructivism, the leading metaphor of human learning since the 1970s. Inspired by inconsistencies in interpretations of constructivism in current literature, we examine the underlying epistemological beliefs of popular constructivist theories and their criticisms. We find that popular constructivist claims and criticisms, instead of being ...

In this article, a distinction is made between the outer therapeutic conversation and the therapist's inner conversation. The therapeutic conversation is a circle of meaning in which both the therapist and the clients play a part. The therapist's inner conversation is described as a negotiation between the self of the ...

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SFBT has become very popular in brief and family therapy field and various questions and assuptions of this approach are well known. This article sets out a basic outlines for using the solution focused model.

Předmětem disertační práce je dílo anglo-amerického antropologa a kybernetika Gregory Batesona, které je v souladu s dánským biologem Jesperem Hoffmeyerem nahlíţeno jako příklad bioantropologického přístupu. Ten spočívá v přesvědčení, ţe mysl či duše představuje jeden z konkrétních projevů přírodního dění, a ţe toto dění samo má duševní charakter.

The following conversation took place during the afternoon of December 3. 1992, in Phoenix, Arizona, where we were all participating in the Fifth Interanational Congres on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.

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 ...

In my view there are some very interesting commonalities between second order cybernetics, cognitive biology as based on autopoiesis and Sebeok’s Peircian semiotics. But there are also some interesting differences that lead me to the conclusion that they need each other.

Understandably, I have often been asked about my interest in and frequent citation of Wittgensteinˇs work in both my writing and my training seminars.

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