Structural Aspects of Synchronistic Moments in Psychotherapy-Findings of an Empirical Study of Synchronicities in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

@article{Reefschlger2024StructuralAO,
  title={Structural Aspects of Synchronistic Moments in Psychotherapy-Findings of an Empirical Study of Synchronicities in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.},
  author={Gunnar Immo Reefschl{\"a}ger},
  journal={The Journal of analytical psychology},
  year={2024},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:266962164}
}
Synchronicity describes a meaningful coincidence of events, which is familiar to us from treatments of our patients, but unfortunately has not yet been empirically substantiated. Adding to previous findings that point out beneficial aspects of synchronicity (Marlo, 2022; Lagutina, 2021; Connolly, 2015), in this paper I will show through a series of five synchronistic moments which happened in the context of therapy and analysis and which have been documented empirically, how synchronicities… 
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