Systemic therapy – A practical implementation of systemic thinking

• Authors: Kurt Ludewig

Title variants

DE

Systemische Therapie – eine praktische Umsetzung systemischen Denkens

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

A summary presentation of the historic development of systemic therapy as the follow-up to family therapies, with the usage of new metatheoretical thinking from the constructivist point of view is followed by a description of the material theoretical conditions of this psychotherapeutic approach, with particular consideration for the theories of cognition and autopoiesis by Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana as well as the sociological system theory according to German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. This is followed by an understanding of interaction systems with respect to the theory of therapy, as developed by the author – the member concept, as well as a system-theoretical adequate conceptualisation of psychical systems. The work ends with a short presentation of the implementation of the described theoretical concepts in systemic therapy practice.

Keywords

EN

Systemic therapy; Biological cognition theory; Autopoiesis; Sociological system theory; Mental systems; Systemic therapy; Biological cognition theory; Autopoiesis; Sociological system theory; Mental systems

PL

Systemic therapy; Biological cognition theory; Autopoiesis; Sociological system theory; Mental systems

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 177-205

Dates

published

2020-05-07

Contributors

author

Kurt Ludewig

• Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of childhood and adolescence of the University Hospital Münster

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/kse.2019.15.12