Basic Orientation Concepts are a set ideas which have been developed to untangle some of the confusions that are sometimes found in discussions of psychotherapy. The basic concepts are ways of ordering ones thinking about ideas that are commonly found in psychotherapy:
Meta Concepts
Mental Operators
Logical Levels and Levels of Explaination
Map vs. Territory
Metaphor, Mediation, and Mechanism
Servo Systems and Feedback

Computer Simulaltions to illustrate Servo Systems and Feedback.
Servo System Simulations

Computer Excersises to explore meaning.
Exlporing Meaning

Computer Excercise to explore relationships.
Exploring Relationships

The following concepts are in file:
Basic Orientation Concepts-2
The Many Faces of Repetition
Quality and Quantity
Gestalten Formation and Pattern Matching
Classification vs. Process
Holons
Content vs. Structure
Content vs. Relationship
Virtual Reality

Glossary is a list of definitions of some of the concepts found in generic psychotherapy.

References to publications cited on these pages.

Psychotherapy Subject Areas are some areas that have been explored in writings about psychotherapy.

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