Bateson's cybernetics: the basis of MRI brief therapy: prologue

Abstract

Purpose

To provide direct access to original documents relevant to the emergence of applied constructivist and cybernetic epistemology in the behavioral sciences.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper employs hermeneutic analysis

Findings

Direct evidence of the cybernetic, interactional theory articulated by Gregory Bateson provides the theoretical foundation for the problem formation, problem resolution model set forth by research associates at the Brief Therapy Center of the Mental Research Institute.

Originality/value

This is a rare, never previously published address by a principal founder of communication/interactional theory

Citation

Ray, W.A. (2007), "Bateson's cybernetics: the basis of MRI brief therapy: prologue", Kybernetes, Vol. 36 No. 7/8, pp. 859-870. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920710777388