Our work owes a great intellectual debt to Louis Sander. Of his many publications, we were
most influenced by the 1977 statement of his systems approach, where he suggested that “ …

n this paper we apply organizing principles of interaction documented I in face-to-face
interactions in infancy to both the implicit and explicit dimensions of therapeutic interaction in …

For more than 30 years, Sander has been one of our foremost theorists of dyadic systems.
Sander is also one of the few theorists who have appreciated the problem of accounting for …

In this chapter, a brief overview of systemic theory is offered within a historical perspective
which describes how it has progressed through a number of phases from a relatively …

Operating largely outside of awareness, the procedural mode of processing has been
neglected in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and yet it is critical to our understanding of …

The author considers the role of synchronicity in the establishment of meaning in analysis
and links it to the notion of moments of meeting proposed by the Boston Process of Change …

One of the central issues in the field of infant mental health concerns the emergence of the
self, in both robust and distorted forms. Various perspectives on when and how the self …

Abstract discuss... alternative models for understanding living systems/[argue] that the
appropriate model for understanding developmental psychopathology is one that matches …

This paper expands on three areas of clinical theory that are introduced and discussed in
the lead paper and the others in this symposium. The first issue addressed is the concept of …

" Smith-Acuña illuminates the structural hierarchy, roles, and boundaries that give a system
structure. The relationship between parts and wholes is both simple and profound, and …