Self-organisation · Emergence · June 2026

Le Roy and the Eco-Cathedral

A wilful Frisian garden of stacked rubble, built without cement and without a blueprint — and what it might gently remind us about self-organisation and the courage not to intervene.

Theory · Clinical application · June 2026

The shallow-lakes analogy

What Scheffer's lakes can teach us about depression — and about the limits of thinking in causes.

Theory · Diagnostics · June 2026

Reflective or formative?

The silent choice behind every diagnostic model — and why, for treatment, it makes all the difference.

Methods · Evidence-based · June 2026

Why averages lie

Ergodicity, idiographic research, and what they mean for the evidence-based practice.

Practice · Treatment · June 2026

From technique-based to process-based

What changes in your work when you begin to think in terms of active processes.

Timing · Critical instability · June 2026

The art of waiting

On timing as a therapeutic craft — and what critical instability can teach us.

Therapeutic relationship · Synchronisation · June 2026

Sympathy of clocks

The therapeutic relationship as a coupled system — read through the lens of 1665.

Variability · Diagnostics · June 2026

When variation falls silent

On healthy mobility, and what its loss can tell us.

Patterns · Local interaction · June 2026

The flock and the neighbours

A short exploration of what a starling flock teaches us — and what it does not.

Development · Catastrophe leaps · June 2026

Van der Maas and the leap

How a Dutch psychologist taught us that development is sometimes a leap.

Common factors · Research · June 2026

Bees, fish and common factors

What a beehive and a school of fish remind us about what works in psychotherapy.

Change · Sudden gains · June 2026

Sudden gains

Why change in therapy proceeds more often in jumps than we think.

Accessible explanation · Entropy · June 2026

The Holi photograph and the idea of entropy

A photograph of a crowd, and how one may recognise in it the idea of entropy.