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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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PSYCHOLOGY (Systemic) 3)5)

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von FOERSTER's Cybernetics of 2nd order and, later on MATURANA and VARELA's concepts of autopoiesis and organizational closure have deeply modified the stand and viewpoints of a number of psychologists.

Some of them now admit that they should be careful, lest they instill their own views into the psychological or psychopathological situation they have to consider, with a serious risk to distort it.

In effect, psychology's endeavor is "the evaluation of human systems by evaluatory human systems" (R. GLANVILLE, 1979, p.37)

Indeed, "The actions of an (experimenting) observer are actions involving control and communication between the observing and the observed system" (Ibid, p.37). We thus should speak of "a reflective and reflexive psychology"(Ibid)

A powerful movement of "systemic psychology" has surfaced in Argentina, possibly too exclusively related to the autopoietic model, not considering enough other systemic and cybernetic concepts and models that could be of interest in psychology.

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