Narcissistic, borderline, toxic: therapy speak has left the consulting room. Julien Besse shows how these labels close the debate and relieve us of our own part.

From Bergson to von Foerster, intuition is not the enemy of rigour but its immediate side. How it works concretely in the clinical interview, and why it calls for a reflexive stance.

Recursiveness, dialogic, hologrammatic: Edgar Morin’s three principles for thinking without mutilating, and what they change concretely in the stance of a practitioner working with human systems.

The same final state can be reached by very different paths. Von Bertalanffy’s equifinality cracks our causal stories and calls for recognising the diversity of routes.