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The Application of Cybernetics to Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

W. Ross Ashby
W. Ross Ashby*
Affiliation:
Barnwood House, Gloucester
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At the moment, cybernetics cannot point to any established triumph for, as a science, it is very young and is being applied to psychiatry in few laboratories. Nevertheless, I hope to show that there are good reasons for thinking that its relation to psychiatry is close, and that its application will eventually yield a rich harvest.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 100 , Issue 418 , January 1954 , pp. 114 - 124
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1954 

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