Shifting paradigms in group psychotherapy

Venter, Gerhard Franz

dc.contributor.advisor	Genot, Santjie
dc.contributor.author	Venter, Gerhard Franz
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-23T04:24:28Z
dc.date.available	2015-01-23T04:24:28Z
dc.date.issued	1992-11
dc.identifier.citation	Venter, Gerhard Franz (1992) Shifting paradigms in group psychotherapy, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17797>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17797
dc.description.abstract	The mid-1900's saw a shift in thinking within the social sciences away from the then dominant Newtonian worldview of linear causality, towards thinking in terms of circular causality. With the development of the new systemic epistemology, and the subsequent shift towards second-order cybernetics and evolutionary theory, new concepts were created to elucidate the processes whereby man constructs reality. This study considers the relevance of second-order cybernetics and the evolutionary theory as descriptive metaphors for both the pragmatics and aesthetics of group psychotherapy. A recursive relationship between theory, description and intervention is conceptualized, and it is concluded that the theoretical constructs in question serve as complementary sides of a systemic coin in the description of group therapy processes and the application thereof to the group therapy context.	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (v, 120 leaves)	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject.ddc	616.89152
dc.subject.lcsh	Group psychotherapy	en
dc.title	Shifting paradigms in group psychotherapy	en
dc.type	Dissertation
dc.description.department	Psychology
dc.description.degree	M.A. (Clinical Psychology)