Processes of experiential organization in individual and family systems.

Kaplan, Netta R.; Kaplan, Marvin L.

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“…A third theoretical perspective that facilitates the integration of individual and interpersonal modalities is an experiential gestalt approach (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1982Kaplan, , 1987Lesonsky et al, 1986), which views the experiential organization of the individual as creating the field in which that individual operates and the field as maintaining each individual's dominant organization of experience. The aspects of self that arise in any given situation are then constantly constructed from the intrapsychic processing of experience and the interpersonal rules, or what experience is supported in a particular context.…”

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Integrating marital and individual therapy for incest survivors: A case study.

Johnson¹

1989

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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Integrating marital and individual therapy for incest survivors: A case study.

Johnson¹

1989

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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The self-organization of human psychological functioning

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Kaplan²

1991

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This article describes the traditional model of human psychological functioning which dominates current theorizing, contrasts it with the new, emerging perspective of self-organizing processes, and applies this new approach to a theory of human psychological functioning. In the traditional model there is an assumption that processes of functioning are discretely different from physical structure. This assumption is shown to be intrinsic to a linear conceptual framework which implies that (a) stability of functioning derives from physical structure; (b) functioning is determined by the effects of enduring, antecedent components; (c) the environment can selectively influence structure; and (d) observational methods are capable of accessing and revealing processes of functioning. In the contrasting self-organizational perspective, structure and functioning are assumed to be given in one another at the level of organizational process. This formulation implies that as a system functions (a) its orderliness and stability are being determined by the ongoing functioning itself; (b) at the level or organizational functioning there are no antecedent structures separate from consequent activity; (c) systemic functioning exists as a unitary and continuous organizational process; and (d) organizational functioning cannot be instructed by environmental events. The work of Prigogine and of Maturana are examined as a basis for a theory of human psychological functioning as a self-organizing system. The theory that is proposed describes how attentional and experiential functioning evolve as a system of organizational continuity and coherence and how the process by which people recognize and identify their functioning secures this organizational functioning.

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Processes of experiential organization in individual and family systems.

Cited by 2 publications

References 20 publications

Integrating marital and individual therapy for incest survivors: A case study.

Integrating marital and individual therapy for incest survivors: A case study.

The self-organization of human psychological functioning

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