Self-Organization in Psychotherapy

By Way of Introduction: Can We Make a Non-Classical Psychology?.- A Metaphor from Quantum Physics and from Phenomenology.- The Weakness of the ’Inside’ Tradition: the Method Fades Out.- The Weakness of the ’Outside’ Tradition: the Object Fades Out.- Object-Method Complementarity and the Relation between both Traditions.- The Domain of a Non-Classical Psychology.- The Inaccessibility of Psychotherapy to Research.- Second Order Cybernetics and Self-Organizing Systems.- Self-Organization in Psychotherapy.- References.- Life, the Multiverse and Everything; an Introduction to the Ideas of Humberto Maturana.- Life: Love and Languaging.- The Multiverse: Expanding the Universe through the Ontology of the Observer.- And Every Thing is Structure.- Implications of Maturana’s Theory for Psychotherapy.- Concluding Comments.- References.- Gestalt Psychology, Gestalt Therapy and the Theory of Autopoiesis.- Definition of Gestalt.- Gestalt Theory and the Theory of Autopoiesis.- The Goal of Gestalt Therapy.- The Gestalt Therapy Process.- The Relation Client — Therapist.- References.- Toward a More Detailed Understanding of Self-Organizing Processes in Psychotherapy.- A Framework for the Description of Change in Psychotherapy: The Selective Activation Model.- The Model of the Negative Class.- Discussion.- References.- Anticipating Autopoiesis: Personal Construct Psychology and Self-Organizing Systems.- Introduction: Varieties of Constructivism.- Self-Organizing Systems.- The Personal Construct System as a Self-Organizing System.- Structure.- Change and Stability.- Stabilizing Change.- The Cognitive Domain.- Implications for Psychotherapy and Ethics.- Kelly: Types of Change.- Concluding Comments.- References.- The Art of Self-Management.- The Image/Symbol Process in theTherapeutic System.- References.- How to Make Use of Oneself as an Instrument in Systemic Therapy.- Differences and Abnormality.- Action and Meaning.- Reflexivity between Action and Meaning.- Autonomy and Structural Coupling.- Assessment and Structural Coupling.- Relation between Object and Process.- Reflection in Action.- References.- On Blindness and Incomprehension.- Blindness.- Incomprehension.- References.- About the Contributors.- Name Index.