[7][8] Guidano's post-rationalist cognitive therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that focuses on understanding the construction of meaning, personal narratives, and emotional regulation in human experience.
Guidano, along with Giovanni Liotti, developed this therapeutic approach, which emphasizes the idea that individuals are complex, autonomous organisms in constant evolution.
The therapy aims to help clients explore and modify their personal narratives, fostering greater self-awareness and facilitating therapeutic change.
Guidano drew upon Maturana's concept of autopoiesis to highlight the dynamic, self-organizing nature of the human mind and its ongoing construction of meaning and identity.
Guidano's therapeutic approach aimed to help clients explore and integrate both explicit and tacit aspects of their experience, facilitating greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, and personal growth.
He viewed human experience as a complex, self-organizing system, in which sensory inputs are actively interpreted and attributed meaning by the individual at the tacit level.
Guidano's use of Hayek's concept of the Sensory Order emphasized the importance of exploring the underlying perceptual processes that influence individuals' subjective experience of themselves and their world.