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Section 4. Second-Order Cybernetics

A Story about Telling Stories: Introducing Bateson's “Epistemology of Organization”

Pages 134-137
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article supplies background material for Bateson's lecture, “Epistemology of Organization,” and a summary of its basic ideas within the context of his theory of double bind. It discusses briefly why transactional analysis needs to consider the epistemology proposed by cybernetics and Bateson.

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Graham Barnes

Graham Barnes, founder of Southeast Institute, currently resides in Sweden where he directs Inform Lab. He commutes to Zagreb, Croatia, where he founded and teaches in the School for Cybernetics of Psychotherapy and is guest lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb. He is the editor of Transactional Analysis After Eric Berne: Teachings and Practice of Three TA Schools (1977) and the author of Justice, Love, and Wisdom: Linking Psychotherapy to Second-Order Cybernetics (1994).