Principles Empirically established · Academic consensus

Repair Logic vs. Causal Healing

Causal healing redesigns the system so that repeating damage becomes unnecessary.

Repair logic removes symptoms, accepts repetition, and plans ongoing interventions. Causal healing changes the system architecture itself, makes permanent repairs obsolete, and drastically reduces the load.

Practical difference: Repair logic develops protocols for recurring crises. Causal healing asks why crises recur. Repair logic secures what exists. Causal healing changes the conditions.

Fields of occurrence: Healthcare (symptom treatment without analysis of living conditions), social policy (measures against homelessness without housing policy), corporate management (crisis management without structural reform), environmental policy (damage limitation without industrial transformation).

Recognition indicator: When a system constantly re-processes the same problems – and when success is defined as "problem management" rather than "problem resolution". A system in repair logic needs its own symptoms.

Academic foundations

Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline (1990) Doubleday Systemdynamik: "Fixes that Fail" – symptomatische Lösungen erzeugen neue Probleme und verstärken das Grundproblem
Donella H. Meadows Thinking in Systems (2008) Chelsea Green Systemfalle "Shifting the Burden": Symptombehandlung verdrängt Ursachenlösung und erzeugt dauerhafte Abhängigkeit
Ivan Illich Medical Nemesis (1975) Calder & Boyars Kontraproduktivität: Das Medizinsystem behandelt Symptome und erzeugt durch seine Logik neue Abhängigkeiten

Repair Logic vs. Causal Healing

Academic foundations

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