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Systems theory and constructivism. A flip-book for psychotherapists. In the second half of the last century different variations of systemic and constructivist thinking have emerged which not only have been important for the development and differentiation of systemic therapy but are increasingly getting attractive for other psychotherapeutic approaches. This article explains some essential notions of all presented theoretical models (complexness, self-organization, context sensitivity, process orientation as well as pattern generation and detection).Subsequently basic ideas of the following theory models will be presented: first order cybernetics, theory of autopoietic systems, theory of social systems (N. Luhmann), theory of problem determined systems, social constructionism, theory of self-organized systems (synergetics) and personcentered systems theory.