Na těchto stránkách se pokusím poukázat na některé koncepční a definiční úpravy, které se zdají být nezbytné, pokud chceme, abychom si ujasnili všechny vágnosti, nejasnosti a rozpory, které prostupují celou literaturou o zdraví, komunikaci a jazyka zvířat.

Two arguments are unfolded against the viability and advisability of applying the notion of autopoiesis to third-order systems. The first argument comes from the domain of psychotherapeutic praxis and elaborates a critique of 'boundary' and 'family' as third-order phenomena. The second argument , coming from the domain of ethics, uses ...

Ernst von Glasersfeld has dedicated a lot of effort to trying to define just where his views and those of his friend Humberto Maturana part company, epistemologically speaking (Glasersfeld 1991, 2001).As a contribution to unravelling this puzzle I propose in this article to delineate just where they seem to differ ...

| Oikos

Draw a distinction!

Most likely, everything that could be said about Warren McCulloch has been said already and, most likely, everything that McCulloch ever said, had never been said before. What to say now about Warren McCulloch and what he did say. I am most grateful to Seymour Papert. who concluded his introduction ...

| Metaphysics of an experimental epistemologist

Supervize je v posledních letech dramaticky se rozvíjejícím oborem. Čerpá z velkého množství zdrojů a psychoterapeutické modely jsou jedním z nich. Je významné zabývat se tím, jak mohou teoretická východiska supervizora zabarvovat a ovlivňovat průběh supervize. Tato práce se zaměřuje na moţné vyuţití systemického přístupu v supervizi, neboť je v ...

The basic motivation of the article is that the authors experience their going into Zen as enlarging for their work as systemic psychotherapists. On this base they ask how Zen in the context of systemic psychotherapy - on a theoretical and on a practical level - can be seen and ...

| Zen and systemic therapy
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