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1 online resource |
Series |
Kybernetes, 0368-492X ; v. 36, no. 7/8 |
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Kybernetes ; v. 36, no. 7/8
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Contents |
Cover; CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; Preface; Still not paradigmatic; Adaptation, acclimation, addiction, remedy, etc.; Bateson's cybernetics: the basis of MRI brief therapy: prologue; The influence of Gregory Bateson: legacy or vestige?; Batesonian epistemology, Bushman n/om-kxaosi, and rock art; Toward Batesonian sociocybernetics: from Naven to the mind beyond the skin; Gregory Bateson in contemporary cross-cultural systemic psychotherapy; Caught in the middle of a double-bind: the application of non-ordinary logic to therapy |
Summary |
Gregory Bateson's contributions to epistemology are so numerous that it is impossible to even show their main implications in this memorial. His discovery of a context, of a meta-information qualifying the content (the formal 'information') led to the formulation of a complex communication theory. The idea of 'double bind' was only one - although a prominent - concept emerging from these investigations. More important, however, was that it became possible to think about topics such as psychiatric diseases, communication, information, mind and others from a totally different point of view. This |
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Title from PDF caption (viewed November 27, 2007) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980
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SUBJECT |
Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980 fast |
Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Cybernetics.
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Cybernetics
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epistemology.
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cybernetics.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Cybernetics
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Broecker, Monika Silvia
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Ivanovas, Georg
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ISBN |
9781846635793 |
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1846635799 |
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1846635780 |
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9781846635786 |
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