Bios Method of Psychotherapeutic and Sociotherapeutic Action

1. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com Bios Method of Psychotherapeutic and Sociotherapeutic Action Hector Sabelli, M.D., Ph.D.

2. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com Bios Aperiodic pattern (no cyclic repetition in history) Expansive (no convergence to attractor) Generated causally (and highly sensitive to input) Creative (diversification, complexes, novelty)

3. Biotic patterns are ubiquitous • Quantum processes (Schrodinger wave function)* • Temporal distribution of galaxies (3 studies)* • Temporal distribution of quasars • Meteorological time series (air, ocean) ** • Geographical boundaries (rivers, shores) ** • Sequences of bases in DNA ** • Physiological (heart, respiration, etc) ** • Animal Populations and multi-agent simulations • Economic processes ** • Music • * Sabelli and Kovacevic, Complexity 2006; Thomas et al. NECSI, 2006 • ** Sabelli BIOS, World Scientific2005

4. Hector Sabelli • RECENT PUBLICATIONS • Sabelli, H. and L. Kovacevic.Quantum Bios and Biotic Complexity in the Distribution of Galaxies. Complexity2006. • Sabelli, H. and L. Carlson-Sabelli.Bios, a Process Approach to Living System Theory. Systems Research and Behavioral Science2005. • Sabelli, H. et alBios Data Analyzer.Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and the Life Sciences 2005. B I O S a Study of Creation World Scientific

5. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com BIOS is a model for causal creative processes Empirical observations show that natural and human processes are creative –not converging to stable attractors Bios theory provides a method of thinking based on natural science and on psychotherapeutic practice.

6. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) Mathematical experiments show that the production of BIOS requires: ACTION BIPOLAR OPPOSITION CONSERVATION Empirical observations show that natural processes involve: ACTION (endogenous energy and one-way time) BIPOLAR OPPOSITION (positive and negative, synergy and conflict, male and female) CONSERVATION (matter, genes, culture)

7. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com BIOS METHOD is a dynamic approach Dynamic: Change (not static) Cause= physical force(not random) Action(physics: energy * time) Interaction(Bipolar and Tripolar) More specifically: Non-linear (quantity [scale] changes quality) Creative(expansive, not convergent to attractor)

8. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com ACTION: Psychotherapeutic intervention All actions are physical actions: Attend to timing, place, temperature (e.g. emotional temperature). Physical and mental processes are actions, and hence equally important: Integrate biological and psychological treatments in medicine and in psychiatry (greater neuroanatomical changes with combined treatment) Physical actions have priority in time andurgency: Attend first tohealth and environment

9. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com ACTION: change of energy in time (causal, auto-dynamic) Social and psychotherapeutic implications: agency, initiative, choice, energy (effort) and time (perseverance), NOT only insight or medications.Paths are made by walking. Synapses are made by learning. Social movements are made by acting. Psychotherapy requires action.

10. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) ACTION: autodynamic Social and psychotherapeutic implications: agency, initiative, choice, creation These alternative views about change are misleading:Determinism (there is no choice)Equilibrium (most economic models)Passive change (discourages action)Random chance (discourages thought) Resistance (anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism,anti-communism, anti-terrorism). If you do not lead, you will be led.

11. 2. Bipolarity:Everywhere there are two: Quantum conjugates (energy and time) 2 sexes, 2 electrical charges 2 directions make a cycle2 different values encode information Bifurcations: multiple oppositions: 2, 4, 8…. Opposites are Inseparable and Similar Opposites Co-create each other, cooperate and conflict, combine (i.e. form a system) and co-create a Third (e.g. child). Opposites do not neutralize each other (Matter is not neutral. Matter is bipolar: positive nucleus, outer electrons make molecules.

12. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) 2. Bipolarity: Psychotherapeutic and Sociological interpretations: • When an emotion or belief is strongly stated, seek how it is enhanced by its opposite. When a political idea is proclaimed, seek how it implies its opposite: e.g. freedom and government surveillance; human rights and torture; democracy and fraud; peace and military intervention. • 2. When a patient attributes an emotion to another, seek how it applies to his or her own self, and vice versa. Terrorism and state terrorism. Anti-imperialism and imperialism. • 3. Pay attention to what is not said, seek what is missing. What is not said in newspapers • 4. Internal and external processes are inseparable opposites: Given a neurotic conflict, seek the interpersonal conflict, and vice versa. International war and class war.

13. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com 2. Bipolarity: Tit for tat as Psychotherapeutic At work and in the family, be Good:* to start Provocable: respond in kind to aggression Forgiving: return immediately to good behavior Clear: Let all know that you will be good, provocable and forgiving * Good means peaceful and fair, not “nice” and legal but guided only by selfish profit and exploitative of others

14. 2. Orthogonal opposites : Similar and different, cooperating and antagonizing Research: Phase Plane of Opposites in Psychological testing and Sociological Polls: The study of processes requires time series data The phase plane is not an “alternative” technique: linear scales distort the data irretrievably Psychotherapeutic interventions: Role reversal in family therapy Insight by unmasking the opposite Similarity of opposites for insight and as behavior: Tit for tat (good, provocable, forgiving and clear)

15. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com 2. Bipolarity in Sociatry Movements must include opposites (e.g. both sexes, young and elders, Christians and non-Christians). You can make peace only with the enemy. Economic plans should include both abundance and scarcity –The “austerity” plans imposed by international financial institutions on poorer countries destroy their economies as demonstrated in every case, besides creating enormous human suffering

16. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com 2. Bipolarity: Psychotherapeutic interpretations in society Role reversal: Do terrorists see us a terrorists? Insight- how language is used to mean the opposite: Did Communism promote government by all? Evaluate current efforts to promote freedom, democracy, and human rights. Is family welfare is bad and profit good? Similarity of opposites: Who bombs? Who seeks the welfare of their family? Who tortures?

17. Seeing, accepting and promoting the coexistence of oppositesCo-create with the otherYou can only make peace with your enemyMisleading alternative viewsIdealization of competition (standard economics, capitalist ideology, current educational system)Idealization of struggle (Darwinism, Marxism) Black or white thinking: one side is true and good. Demonization of the other. “Anti” attitudes instead of new ideas (anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, anti-communism)Conflict models misrepresent reality: trees grow in woods, symbiosis is fundamental for evolution, division of labor is necessary

18. The third ingredient of creativity: the connection of three • Geometry: 3 dimensions make a world • Quantum mechanics: three types of quarks make matter • Family: mother, father and child • Color: three primary colors • Three in many mental categories, three branches of government, Trinitarian concepts of Divinity, The Three Musketeers , etc, etc • Mathematical theorems show the creativity of three: Sarkovskii’s: Period 3 implies infinite harmonies.

19. A creative manner of thinking • Action: do not remain still, do not change passively. Initiate action; be the protagonist of your own life. • Opposition: Nothing is entirely true, nothing is entirely false. Black or white thinking generates conflict and depression. • Triad: Think in color, not just in black and white, or grey. Both opposites share much that is wrong, so seek the third.

20. Three roots for creation 1 Action 2 Bipolarity 3. Colors, 3 dimensions of space The Tao begot one. One begot two. Two begot three. And three begot the ten thousand things. The ten thousand things carry yin and yang. They achieve harmony by combining these forces. Lao-tzu

21. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com A CROSS OF OPPOSITES GENERATES A THIRD

22. The third ingredient of creation and destruction: the connecting third: there always is a third In a family, a child is abused by one parent only when the other (the enabler) allows the abuse

23. The third ingredient of creation and destruction: the connecting third: there always is a third In a family, a child is abused by one parent only when the other (the enabler) allows the abuse IRAQ 2005

24. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com Creation requiresACTION (self-propelled change) BIPOLARITY (both opposites)CONNECTION (in time: conservation, at each time: formation of complex structures

25. Chicago Center for Creative Development Tools for Creation 1. Action (agency, initiative, not resistance)2. Bipolarity: Cooperation and struggle3. Seek third option by opposing both opposites4, 5,… : Life-like (biotic)creation: diversification, (age, sex, class, ethnic, cultural organizations and ideas), novelty (spontaneity), and complexity (scientific, psychological and religioustools). Priority of life (health, peace, jobs) Supremacy of mental processes (cultural, emotional, scientific)

26. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com Physical actions have priority in time andurgency: Attend first tohealth and environment Psychological actions have supremacy: Psychological factors in medical illness Collective emotions, culture, science, religion in social processes Interacting levels of organization: Biological < Familial < Social < Personal Health < Caring < Work < Creativity

28. SIMPLE TOOLS FOR CREATIVE SOCIAL ACTION: • Think 1, 2, 3, NOT simpler • Seek to understand the oneness behind diversity • 2. Identify the main opposition, accept the two sides of every opposition, seek or create new oppositions • 3. Generate a third as an avenue to greater diversity • Think in color, not in black and white: regarding life and world as a cosmic battle between good and evil has tragic consequences • Act. Oppose. Connect and conserve.

29. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com Complex tools for creative action Diversification: multiple strategies multiple organizations (generation, sex, ethnicity, class) Novelty: initiative (not resisting or defensive) spontaneity (not impulsive) advance new formulations (personalization) Complexity: attend to culture, religion, etc learn from natural processes learn from psychological studies diagnose collective moods use psychotherapeutic techniques

30. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) http://creativebios.com We need a therapeutic vision: * Science does not imply social progress: physics and biology produce weapons, economics is biased to increase profits for the powerful, biological evolutionism, sociology and psychology are used to control and justify social domination (racism, sexism). * Religions are not reliable moral guides: Inquisitions, crusades, fundamentalism, and end-of the world beliefs promote conquest, war, racism, sexism.

31. A Therapeutic approach to society:Sociatry: a psychiatry for a mentally sick societyDiagnose collective moods and take them into consideration in developing political strategiesTeachcriteria for mental health allowing people to recognize pathology in leaders and religious teachings that support emotionally sick behavior: death penalty, war as “crusades”, racism, sexism, corporal punishment of children, attacks on sexual minorities.

32. The Cross denounces torture and empire

33. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) What non-linear dynamics says about natural and human processes • Catastrophes • Abruptnon-linear changes (dialectic leaps) • Determined by quantitative change in parameters (NOT scale free) • Orthogonal parameters (opposites are complementary [90 degrees], NOT polar [180 degrees]) • Chaos • Causal change (NOT stochastic) • Unipolar feedback generates random-like complexity • Highly sensitive to inputs (“initial conditions”) and therefore modifiable by human action • Patterns often fractal

34. Chicago Center for Creative Development (CCCD) What non-linear dynamics says about natural and human processes • Bios • Creative processes: expansion (NOT convergence to attractor), diversification, episodic patterns [complexes], novelty, asymmetry, contiguity, non-random complexity • Action, bipolar feedback and hierarchical connections render processes creative • Bios often includes catastrophes, chaos, fractality