Psychotherapy reflects upon its constructions of its clients, and its own way of thinking. Our messages about our messages are also messages. We see our work as descriptions of relations between messages. With second-order cybernetics, the insights gained from the uctivist model can be examined for their political and social agendas, as well as for their explanatory power and therapeutic effectiveness. These approaches are relevant to a psychotherapy of psychotherapy that would form, and reform its own theories.
Gravity causes objects to fall toward the earth.
It is merely a description of objects accelerating, according to a precise equation, toward earth. But, in fact, physicists have recognized the limitations of the Newtonian model since very early in this century. Constructivists criticize scientists for their naive objectivism, but skepticism about scientific objectivity has had a long tradition in the philosophy of science as well as in science itself. As we interact with them, we wonder how we both change. We are part of the communication that we are describing.