CYBERNETICS

“The Cybernetics of "Self" A Theory of Alcoholism & the Genesis of Mental Disorders and Social Deviance”



“The Cybernetics of "Self" A Theory of Alcoholism & the Genesis of Mental Disorders and Social Deviance”

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The article expresses the Interpretation of Foerster's work, and expresses the transitions of his professional life, from an ethnographer dealing with small-bounded cultures to an epistemologist dealing with cybernetics as an intellectual paradigm in the social and natural sciences and from professional anthropologist-until 1948-to that of researcher, practitioner, and founder of the systemic approach in family therapy-an important phase that covered more than fifteen years. In the ...