Published: March 2023

Keywords:
Catastrophe Theory, Cause/Effect, Causality/Circularity, Circular Questions, Uroboros, Cybernetic Brain, Brain-Mind

Umberta Telfener

Umberta Telfener is a systemic psychologist, lecturer at the Milan school where she is also responsible for international relations, vice-president of EFTA-Tic (i.e. the section of EFTA that deals with educational programs and educational centers) and professor at the Postgraduate School of Health Psychology at La Sapienza University of Rome. utelfener@gmail.com

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.

SISTEMICA Entries

ISSUE 33

Abduction, Structural Coupling, Adaption

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Art, Expectation, Autonomy

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An Outline of Bateson’s Ideas (in collaboration with Giovanni Madonna), The evolution of Bateson’s ideas

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Self-Organization, Autopoiesis / Allopoiesis, Self-Reference, Self-Value, Biosphere / Ecosphere / Noosphere

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The Paradigm of Complexity-1st part

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The Paradigm of Complexity-2nd part, Chaos

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Constructivism

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Observer/Subject, I/We, Self/Selves

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Data/Capta, Decision/Choice, Rationality, Deconstruction/Deconstructionism, Thick Description, Description/Explanation

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Narration, Story, Metaphor/Analogy