Published: October 2023

Keywords:
Marcelo Pakman, Heinz von Foerster, Questions, Art, Singularity, Nature, Dialogue, Words, Body, Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Sacred, Religion, Theory of Communication, Anticipation, Change, Biology, Culture, Sense, Meaning, Embodied, Qualia, Reductionism, Culturalism, Repetition, Order, Therapy, Work of Imagination, Observer, Subject, Being, Existent, Aesthetics, Person, Linguistics, Rhizome, Giles Deleuze, Natural Evolutionary Communication, Love, Entropy, Poetic.

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

Many thanks to Marcelo Pakman for his great and continuous support of Metalogos.

This time, he honours Metalogos' Conference 2023, by offering to Olga Alexiadou, Yanna Karanikolaou, Dimitris Mouzas, Natassa Panidou and Fany Triantafillou a long, dense, and enlightening speech about about his own ideas and therapeutic action in relation and comparison mostly with Gregory Bateson's and Heinz von Foerster's and a bit about Giles Deleuze's concepts and theories.

Rich stuff to think about and reflect! This video includes only a part of his speech.