BCSSS

International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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FAMILY THERAPY 5)

A current in psychology and psychiatry based on systemic concepts, mainly centered on autopoiesis.

Familiar therapists rejects the "Olympian stance", common in their trade, which induces most psychologists and psychiatrists to believe that they can treat their patients only on the bases of objective observation; generic concepts about some classes of mental illnesses and some objective guiding of the patients.

Familiar therapists try to better understand what "being an observer" implies and, as a result, they consider that their interactions with the patients are not neutral. Moreover, they believe that no patient can be isolated from her/ his personal environment, and, more specifically from her/his family, which generally presents psychological closure.

The therapist interventions aim at a better integration of the whole family group, including a better adaptation of its members behavior.

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

Publisher

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]


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