Wisdom Strategy Research Institute

Structuralism is the philosophical stance that there are semi-fixed "structures" in the psyche that can be isolated, elicited, specified, and even measured. Examples of these structures are beliefs and values. Structures that appeared in Freud's work included the ego, id, and libido.

Another way of thinking about structuralism is to say that subjective experience has a structure. John Grinder, Robert Dilts, and Richard Bandler blatently embraced structuralism by sub-titling their sholarly book of 1979 NLP Volume 1 "The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience."

Structuralism is as much a linguistic as an experiential phenomena.

In Cybernetic Calibration Systems we not only assume there are such structures that we are working with, eliciting, and transforming, and also that we are ultimately building such structures in the mind. This is the ultimate goal of each of the packages, to build a specific and durable cognitive - perceptual - emotional structure in the participants ongoing experience.

Therefore, structuralism is a core assumption of Cybernetic Calibration Systems.