...Mario S. Staller; Anne Kramer; Swen Koerner Purpose This paper develops a systems-theoretical account of suicide as a terminal form of psychic self-reference. We aim to move beyond risk factor and dysfunction models by reconstructing suicide as a structurally coherent event within autopoietic...

...Dr Raul Espejo; Raul Espejo Purpose – Illustrate supported by Beer’s Viable System Model and four vignettes the relevance of self-organisation, recursive structures, self-reference and reflexivity in policy processes. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach...

...Torcuato Perez de Guzman Upholds the equivalence between the sociological notion of reflexivity and the idea of self‐reference, which epistemologically and structurally distinguish those complex systems where humans participate as elements. Once there is a conceptual bridge between sociology...