Cybernetics and Behavioral Loops

The “cognitive revolution” in behavior therapy (second wave) was the result of scientific developments in the last third of the twentieth century. The focus shifted from observable behavior to mental processes, but the scientific paradigm as a methodology of “chains of causal conclusions” remained unchanged from the beginnings of empirical psychology [222]. Now attempts have been made to map intrapsychic processes in non-linear models and more complex explanatory patterns.