A Jazz connoisseur finds the sequence of chords during improvising highly plausible. Someone who hears this music for the first time, may not detect a pattern in it. An art historian will see allegories in the mosaics of medieval church windows, whereas a tourist would see haphazard displays of colour. A person can say “I …
The decision to make something plausible is always functional when, by this method, I gain information which gives me a better basis regarding other (guiding-) decisions. Whether I associate something with myself or the environment, how I shape my needs regulation, whether I wish to affirm or deny something, whether I can do something or …
Consciousness is one of the eight guiding processes of psychodynamics. The significant distinction consists of the question: “What do I know (not know) about myself” Consciousness is defined as the process which regulates self-direction in a person (i.e. not his digestion). It can operate in two ways, consciously or unconsciously. This is completely functional, as …
Self-perception is one of the eight guiding processes of psycho-dynamics. The underlying decision can be found in the question: – “How do I (don’t I) feel?” That which people want to perceive in themselves determines what they can feel responsible for. Only where awareness exists can it be influenced and controlled. Nobody wants to, or …
Comprehension is one of the eight guiding processes of psychodynamics. The guiding distinction lies in the question: “What do I (don’t I) understand?”. Each person continuously organises his life, through the creation of connections, causalities, calculations of means and purpose, desires and goals. One cannot avoid the ‘meaning’, rather, one continuously constructs it anew. Thus, …
Resonance is one of the eight guiding processes of psychodynamics. The decision which every individual must make in relationship to his environment, consists of the question: “What do I (don’t I) react to?” Every human must select from an infinite abundance of what in himself and in the world he responds to, because one cannot …
Self-expression is one of the eight guiding processes of psychodynamics. The decision to be made is: – “What do I (don’t I) reveal?” Choosing which part of yourself to reveal and conceal is an aspect of functional psychodynamics. As a life in social roles is only possible if you can do both: Revealing what you …
Acceptance is one of the eight guiding processes of psychodynamics. Every person must find an answer to the question: “In which way do I evaluate?”. No matter what you experience, internally or externally, you must decide whether you affirm these experiences, or negate them. You can accept or reject the experience, welcome or ignore it. …
Regulation of needs is one of the eight guiding processes of psychodynamics. The decision which each person must make consists of the following question: “What do I (don’t I) want?” The dynamics of a psychological system requires the continuous regulation of your own desires. If you have access to your needs, you can feel comfortable …
Personal responsibility is one of the eight guiding processes of psychodynamics. The question to be decided is this: ‘Do I exert influence (or not)?’ Each person permanently decides which paradigm he constructs. In truth, nothing has clear meaning. That which disconcerts one person aggravates another, that to which one person responds with rage, another takes …