Sep 9, 2026 · 18 min · 7 segments
Most therapy is reported as successful when the client feels a relatedness to their therapist. Yet, a lot of talk-therapy interventions are based on insight or the ability to cognitively react, and…
[upbeat music] What is it that I'm speaking about? It's a phenomenon called interpersonal synchrony, and I've been pretty curious about it for a while, so I'm continuing my research into the topic so that I can share it with you because like most things in psychology, it's a new way to explain and sort of conceptualize something that we as humans and as human mental health therapists have most likely been experiencing ever since we started our practicums.
[upbeat music] The article is titled Applications of Synergetics in Psychology: Interpersonal Synchrony in Social Systems.
It's published in 2025 by Wolfgang Schachter in Frontiers in Network Physiology.
You might recognize Schachter's last name because I have reviewed previous research from this author.
So and this article just kind of struck my attention because they're talking about the mathematics behind how this works, and I haven't seen things like Fourier analysis and eigenvalues since I was doing my mathematics undergraduate degree.
So it's quite thrilling for me to see these things come together, but what does it mean for doing therapy? Okay, let's consider this.
[upbeat music] What is it that I'm speaking about? It's a phenomenon called interpersonal synchrony, and I've been pretty curious about it for a while, so I'm continuing my research into the topic so that I can share it with you because like most things in psychology, it's a new way to explain and sort of conceptualize something that we as humans and as human mental health therapists have most likely been experiencing ever since we started our practicums.
[upbeat music] The article is titled Applications of Synergetics in Psychology: Interpersonal Synchrony in Social Systems.
It's published in 2025 by Wolfgang Schachter in Frontiers in Network Physiology.
You might recognize Schachter's last name because I have reviewed previous research from this author.
So and this article just kind of struck my attention because they're talking about the mathematics behind how this works, and I haven't seen things like Fourier analysis and eigenvalues since I was doing my mathematics undergraduate degree.
So it's quite thrilling for me to see these things come together, but what does it mean for doing therapy? Okay, let's consider this.
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