A Dynamical Successor to Modernism and Postmodernism

Abstract

The author introduces an emerging worldview that could affect counseling concepts and methods greatly in the relatively near future. The worldview, dynamicalism, incorporates essential features of modernism and postmodernism. It also incorporates cutting-edge concepts from physics and philosophy. The synthesis of these ideas provides a conceptual basis for thinking about and conducting counseling in new ways.A quiet revolution is taking place that will affect counseling in significant ways. It stems from the revolutions of general and special relativity and quantum mechanics in physics during the early to mid-20th century (Greene, 1999;Laudan, 1996). Quieter concurrent conceptual revolutions took place in such professions as anthropology (Bateson, 1972) and biology (Bertalanffy, 1967). Although these sciences differ from physics, anthropology's and biology's conceptual changes were similar to those observed in physics. The combined effects of these revolutions over several decades have fostered conditions for the emergence of even bolder models that seem to be harbingers of future developments for civilization in general and counseling in particular. How these developments might affect counseling appears in a fictional story. A Story About the FutureWendy Li listened to Kara pour out her heart, in starts and stops, interlaced with occasional tears. Kara felt depressed, lost, and confused. While Kara talked, Wendy alternated between taking notes on her computerized notepad and marking a depression screening checklist on the split-screen application of her notepad. Between how Kara shared her story and the checklist, Wendy concurred that Kara indeed seemed depressed. Kara and Wendy agreed to meet again in 3 days.The second counseling session took place, as agreed, at Kara's apartment. As Wendy climbed the stairs to the apartment, she briefly reflected on how much of her client load entailed sessions at places other than her office. Since she graduated from a master's program in 2020, Wendy figured that nearly 40% of her client hours included at least a few visits at client homes or other settings such as shopping centers. She saw some clients nearly entirely at sites away from her office. These on-site visits allowed her to get more of a "real-time" sense of her clients' experiences in the context of those experiences than she could get in her office. She recalled from her counseling history studies that out-of-office sessions had existed for several decades but were

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