Zur Integration von Fühlen und Denken im Licht der „Affektlogik“. Die Psyche als Teil eines autopoietischen Systems

A Comprehensive View on Affect and Logic

“…(1) There is no doubt about the utility of the hypothesis of a premorbid vulnerability [Zubin and Spring, 1977] and its further elaboration by Ciompi [1982Ciompi [ , 1985Ciompi [ , 1987, At our actual state of knowledge all the find ings support the idea of a progressive devel opment of instable and deficient cognitivoaffective reference systems.…”

“…Adapted from Riedl [1985, p. 56]. be labelled as 'normal' or 'pathological' by an observer -are the 'best solutions' for a given individual with his phylo-and ontoge netic experience in a given physical and psy chosocial environment. It seems evident, that such a view leads to a new understand ing of psychopathological processes, as well as to different therapeutic interventions [Ciompi, 1985].…”

“…'Affective logic' postulates a view, where feeling and thinking are two equally impor tant modes of apprehension, which -by their complementarity and interaction -al low for a most economic 'information pro cessing' (in a large sense), gathering entities, as well as details continuously [Ciompi, 1985],…”

“…Therefore, cognitive functions and affective processes always occur together and are to be seen as manifestations of the same underlying struc tures [Ciompi, 1982[Ciompi, , 1985,…”

Why are foster-care programs not a part of everyday routine in psychiatric treatment?

“…The fact that there may be a therapeutic effect in integrating a patient into an individual setting like a family obliges psychiatrists to reflect to their unspoken ideological attitudes towards schizophrenia: models which try to explain the occurrence of psychotic symptoms and resulting social disabilities as intrinsic to the disease must be replaced or supplemented by a socio-ecological model (Ciompi 1982). 4.…”