thesis

Formation du système thérapeutique et affiliation au cours du premier entretien

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1988

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Institution:

Paris 10

Disciplines:

Psychology

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Abstract EN:

The present work is a study of the way therapist and family become affiliated in the course of their very first interview, the process being supposed to condition the further evolution of the therapy either to a stop or to a follow on. Another aim is to develop a method for a multidimensional analysis of the interviews. From a therapeutic point of view, the concept of affiliation is interpreted in the light of two principles originating in biology; the principle of complexity from noise (H. Atlan) and the principle of informational closure in autonomous systems (Maturana and Varela). The hypothesis is that affiliation will exist only inasmuch as the therapeutic system is able to develop self-organizing characteristics which become manifest through specific configurations of interaction between therapists and family members. Another hypothesis is that, for its constitution, affiliation is dependent on the elaboration of a collective myth where new meanings are worked out. This myth would be related with the effective constitution of the therapeutic system into a specific autonomous system with informational closure.

Abstract FR:

Etude du processus par lequel le thérapeute et la famille s'affilient au cours du premier entretien, ce qui conditionne la poursuite ou l'abandon de la thérapie. Mise au point d'une méthode permettant une analyse multidimensionnelle des entretiens. Sur le plan théorique, l'affiliation est interprétée à partir du principe de complexité par le bruit (Pr. Atlan) et de la clôture informationnelle des systèmes autonomes (Prs Maturana et Varela) il y aurait affiliation si le système thérapeutique acquiert des propriétés auto-organisatrices ce qui se manifeste par l'émergence de configurations interactives particulières; d'un autre point de vue, l'affiliation dépendrait de la construction d'un mythe où s'élaborent les nouvelles significations ce qui est relié à la constitution du système thérapeutique du système autonome spécifique avec sa clôture informationnelle.