Niclas Kaiser

Niclas Kaiser is a clinical psychologist and associate professor, leading the Interpresence Institute. His research interests are intersubjectivity, implicit shared intentionality, systemic processes and their evolutionary and biological underpinnings, including their meaning on an individual and dyad/group level. Most of all, he wonders how relations and their unfolding may be studied and what theories are valid. As a way forward, the concept of “social breathing” is introduced for its ability to engage and maintain the interactive psychological weave and interpresence as a condition-dependent phenomenon of being here-and-now with another. These concepts are included in the recent suggestion of the ConNECT approach for neuroscience towards meaningful interpersonal moments. These concepts align with the paradigm shift from synchrony to temporal dynamics, from individual to dyadic, from cognitivism to embodied/enactment, from the observing brain to second-person neuroscience, a shift that reflects the present changes in technical and methodological development and cross-theoretical endeavours.