Over the centuries we have had a paradigm of thinking that the mind is in the head. That the mind exists somewhere in the brain and that it processes and stores information. On a closer inspection of the brain you would find that the entity we call "mind" is not ...

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With the advent of web-based courses and distance education technology, it is necessary to carefully consider how the use of this technology fosters the learning intended in adult education programs. In this paper, we have outlined constructivist learning theory as an approach to fostering web-based course development. A constructivist approach ...

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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One of the questions guiding subsets of physics, chemistry and biology research is Where does order come from? Following the general laws of thermodynamics it would seem that dynamic processes would find the path of least energy until the system found a low spot, a dead calm, and remained at ...

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 ...

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

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The context for this paper is the ongoing systemic/psychoanalytic debate. It offers an alternative perspective to the recent contribution by Brodie and Wright (2002), in which they are concerned to underscore difference between the two therapeutic approaches. Here it is argued that the relationship is a great deal more complex ...

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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.

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In Radical Constructivism (RC) (Glasersfeld 1991) we judge our understanding by what can be accomplished using that understand- ing. Realists do not understand the notion that RC is not about “truth,” but about fit to experience. In this article, we look at evidence in educational settings. While the evidence will ...

I introduce the following story into families where young people, for any number of reasons, are experiencing difficulties belonging, and their parents/caretakers, for any number of reasons, are experiencing difficulties belonging them. The Browns1 were one such family. Mark, now in his late 40's, had separated from his wife when ...

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