Published: December 2022

Keywords:
Marcelo Pakman, Biology, Language, Culture, Society, Family Therapy, critical-poietic, singularity.

Marcelo Pakman

Marcelo Pakman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he graduated in medicine. Since 1989 he lives in western Massachusetts, in New England, USA. Being a community psychiatrist, psychotherapist and family therapist, he has had a prolonged clinical systemic based practice and has also worked in the development of links between critical theory, philosophy, epistemology, on the one hand, and clinical practice in psychotherapy and mental health, on the other. As part of the disciples of Bateson, he explores the interdisciplinary fields of science, art, philosophy, religion and social practice approach. He is on the Editorial Board of multiple professional magazines in North and South America and Europe, and has published numerous articles and book chapters in English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese. He chaired the Human Rights Committee and was vice president of the American Family Therapy Academy and Vice President of the American Society for Cybernetics. Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Science Polytechnic Institute of Hong Kong (2004-2009). Dr Pakman is a frequent guest lecturer and teacher who has taught courses, seminars, workshops in over 80 cities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Abstract

Marcelo Pakman presents his book trilogy “El espectro y el signo” (“The specter and the sign”), where he presents a critical-poietic approach for psychotherapy as an alternative to purely technical-rational approaches both those that see themselves as applications of the neurosciences and those based on the linguistic turn, all of which have become hegemonic in the second half of the twentieth century.