For a Theory of the Psychotherapeutic Process: Epistemology of Recursion and Relational Fractality.

Psychotherapy is a relational process that emerges from the meeting of two people. There is an ontological difference between the individual psychopathology of the patient and relational therapy; the present work aims to overcome the patient-centric conception of psychotherapy, restoring the dyadic nature of the therapy through the interpretation of the psychological interview as a fractal process. Recursion, namely the application of the same logical operator to the result of the operation itself, is presented here as the basic procedural element of psychotherapy.

Relational Fractal Dimension: From the Complexity of Psychological Interview to the Emergence of the Therapeutic Relationship.

The psychological interview is a complex system which emerges from the interaction of its components, i.e., the patient and the psychologist; therefore, it is presumed to display a fractal structure whose dimension defines its level of complexity.