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Colin DeYoung || Rethinking Mental Illness

The Psychology Podcast

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What Is Syronetic?

In syronetics, a goal is something more abstract. Basically, it is any representation within the system of a state that the system then works to bring about in the world. There have to be principles that are common to any kind of system that is able to pursue a goal based on feedback from what's happening and from what is tracking in the environment. And so there, you know, that turned into a whole very successful field. In psychology, we often think of goals as things like where we have a very concrete idea of the future that you are committed to working toward. But in syronetic systems, tey. carry out processes, you know,. to acquire nutrients and moisture

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