Can We Sing Potatoes? Primary Substrates, Synchronicity, and Fractal Dynamics in Clinical Practice

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In discussing “Synchronicity, Acausal Connection, and the Fractal Dynamics of Clinical Practice” (this issue), a post-Bionian perspective is used to draw out some of the similarities, differences, and implications of a fractal epistemology. In particular, Bion’s concept of O, his theory of transformation, and his clinical approach, are considered in exploring the idea of a “primary substrate,” nonlocal information sharing and synchronicity. Using a brief case vignette, and drawing on clinical examples in the paper, the clinical implications of the authors’ metatheory are considered.

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Synchronicity, Acausal Connection, and the Fractal Dynamics of Clinical Practice

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Duncan Cartwright

Duncan Cartwright, Ph.D., is Head of the Center for Applied Psychology, Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He coordinates the Masters in Clinical and Counseling Psychology and serves on the editorial board of Psycho-Analytic Psychotherapy in South Africa. He is the author of Murdering Minds: Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder (Brunner-Routledge, 2002) and Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion’s Container Model in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2010).