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In this paper, we study Open Dialogue, a psychiatric programme developed in Western Lapland, Finland, with the theory of autopoietic systems. Although originally developed as a psychiatric programme, we anticipate that the approach can be applied to not only psychotherapy but also educational and organisational situations as a way of “collaborative problem dissolution,” because it is based on the philosophy of dialogism, which is not limited to psychotherapy. In an attempt to apply it in a more general context, we study the function of Open Dialogue in a higher level of abstraction with concepts of systems theories, i.e. the Social Systems Theory and Creative Systems Theory. Our consideration implies that Open Dialogue can be understood well through a combination of chain of consciousness in the psychic system, chain of communication in the social system and chain of discovery in the creative system.
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It is reasonable to use autopoietic systems theory, because the theorists of autopoietic systems, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela and Niklas Luhmann, are referred in the literature on the Open Dialogue (Seikkula and Arnkil 2006).
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Iba, T., Nagai, M., Ishida, T. (2018). Open Dialogue as Coupling of Psychic, Social and Creative Systems. In: Grippa, F., Leitão, J., Gluesing, J., Riopelle, K., Gloor, P. (eds) Collaborative Innovation Networks. Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74295-3_18
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