Nature heals : an informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F24%3A00137082" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/24:00137082 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064524001167" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064524001167</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.005" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.plrev.2024.09.005</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Nature heals : an informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy
Original language description
This paper reviews biophysical models of psychotherapeutic change based on synergetics and the free energy principle. These models suggest that introducing sensory surprise into the patient-therapist system can lead to self-organization and the formation of new attractor states, disrupting entrenched patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. We propose that the therapist can facilitate this process by cultivating epistemic trust and modulating embodied attention to allow surprising affective states to enter shared awareness. Transient increases in free energy enable the update of generative models, expanding the range of experiences available within the patient-therapist phenomenal field. We hypothesize that patterns of disorganization at behavioural and physiological levels, indexed by increased entropy, complexity, and lower determinism, are key markers and predictors of psychotherapeutic gains. Future research should investigate how the therapist's openness to novelty shapes therapeutic outcomes.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physics of Life Reviews
ISSN
1571-0645
e-ISSN
1873-1457
Volume of the periodical
51
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
64-84
UT code for WoS article
001318917200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85204042638