title: ["The rose exists without a reason" (Silesius)--but how does psychotherapy induce change?].
abstract: Basing on Heidegger's discussion of the opposing, albeit complementary, positions taken by Leibniz and by the seventeenth-century East German mystic Angelus Silesius in respect of the concept of the nature and grounds of knowledge and reason, the author attempts to extend the scope of recent experimental epistemologists such as Varela and v. Foerster, pointing out the fundamental dilemmas inherent in the act of cognition, with which--among others--researchers in psychotherapy are confronted. The range of application of the term "autopoietic system" is defined more precisely by differentiating it from "self-referential phenomena".
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Universitäts-Poliklinik, Lausanne.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stigler
mesh_terms: D003491:Cybernetics; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D010684:Philosophy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support
vernacular_title: "Die Ros' ist ohn' Warum" (Silesius)--aber wie verändert Psychotherapie?