History · Cybernetics
What mathematics brought to psychotherapy: cybernetics and the systemic approach
In the scientific world, the origin of systemic thinking is certainly to be credited to a discipline born at the beginning of the 20th century: cybernetics.
What is this discipline? What were its successive waves, and what impact did each of them have on the field of psychotherapy?
I tell this story in the video below, in French.
How to cite this article
Besse, J. (2022, October 9). What mathematics brought to psychotherapy: cybernetics and the systemic approach. Complexe Systémique. https://app.complexe-systemique.com/en_GB/articles/what-mathematics-brought-to-psychotherapy-cybernetics-and-the-systemic-approach
To go further
- Gregory Bateson: the anthropologist who revolutionised psychotherapyThe journey of the man who brought cybernetic thinking into the field of therapy.
- Gregory Bateson's logical levels: thinking change in depthOne of Bateson's great theoretical contributions for thinking about the levels of change.
- What is the systemic approach in psychology?An overall introduction to the approach born of this scientific history.
- Systemic therapy: the different approaches explained simplyThe overview of the major schools of therapy that emerged from the systemic current.
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