Published: December 2020, Issue 38


Keywords:
Umberta Telfener, Luca Casadio, Sistemica, Πολυπλοκότητα, Second-Order-Cybernetics, Complex Models, James Lovelock, Gaia Hypothesis, Evolutionary Coupling, Synergetics, Hermann Haken, Unpredictability, Uncertainty, Jean-François Lyotard, “The Postmodern Condition, A Report on Knowledge”, Nora Bateson, “Ecology of Mind”, Gregory Bateson, Catastrophe Theory, Chaos Theory Applications, Attractors, Humberto Maturana, Structural Drift, Natural Drift, Punctuated Equilibria, René Thom, Henri Atlan, Reductionism, Biology, Fractal, Fractal Geometry, Self-Organisation, Heinz von Foerster, Eigenvalues, Static System, Dynamic System, Static Economics, Dynamic Economics, Santa Fe Group, Erik Christopher Zeeman.

Umberta Telfener

Systemic therapist, instructor of the Milan School of Family Therapy, utelfener@gmail.com, www.systemics.eu

Luca Casadio

Luca Casadio, psychologist and psychotherapist, worked as a managing psychologist for the USL. He teaches in several graduate schools and has published some books and numerous articles. Including: "Systemics: voices and paths in complexity", with Umberta Telfener and the supervision of Heinz von Foerster, Bollati Boringhieri, 2003, "Between Bateson and Bion, at the roots of relational thinking", Antigone editions, 2010. Regarding the relationship between art and psychology has published: "The images of the mind: for a psychoanalysis of cinema, art and literature" Franco Angeli, 2004, and "The art of psychotherapy and the psychology of art", Mimesis, 2015.

Abstract

Continuing the “discussion” on Complexity, in this video, the inventors and their theories composing complexity are presented – such as the Theory of Catastrophe and the Theory of Chaos.