Paul Dell

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Paul Frederick Dell (born December 24, 1947 ) is an American psychotherapist .

Dell initially devoted himself to family therapy and founded the Galveston Family Institute in 1977 together with Harlene Anderson , Harold A. Goolishian and George Pulliam . He was considered a representative of radical constructivism . His speech at the Zurich Congress of Family Therapists in 1981 is said to have triggered a radical rethink.

In the 1980s and 1990s he was a professor at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. He later devoted himself primarily to research into dissociative disorders .

Fonts

In English

  • (1981) Order through fluctuation: An evolutionary epistemology for human systems. (Together with Harold A. Goolishian). Australian Journal of Family Therapy 2: 175-184
  • (1986) Can the Family Therapy Field be rigorous? Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 12 (1), 37-38
  • (2009) Dissociation and the dissociative disorders. Routledge, New York, ISBN 978-0-415-95785-4 .

In German language

  • (1981) Order through Fluctuation. An evolutionary epistemology for human systems. (Together with Harold A. Goolishian). Family Dynamics 6: 104-122.
  • (1986) Clinical Knowledge. On the basics of systemic therapy. Verlag Modernes Leben, Dortmund 1986, ISBN 3-8080-0092-9
  • (1990) 2nd, revised edition of the same work, ISBN 3-8080-0231-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uli Graf: “The Autopoiesis Concept in Radical Constructivism” ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), May 2006.
  2. ↑ Roland Müller: "History of systems thinking and the concept of systems" .
  3. ↑ Bernhard Pörksen: Key Works of Constructivism . 2nd expanded edition. Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-531-19975-7 , pp. 476 f .
personal data
SURNAME Dell, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dell, Paul Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1947