Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy.
Physics of Life Reviews December 1, 2024 Pietro Sarasso, Wolfgang Tschacher, Félix Schoeller et al. 11 citations
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...