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The Matrix as a Bridge to Systems Thinking

Carl J. Sheperis

Mississippi State University

Shelly F. Sheperis

The Relationship Doctors, LLC

Introducing the concept of systems to beginning family counseling students who have been traditionally trained in a mental health model can be an arduous task. This article offers an instructional method of using popular films to help students to widen their range of personal constructs to include that of cybernetics. The Matrix offers the opportunity to discuss multiple realities and the concepts of recursion, equifinality, morphostasis, morphogenesis, and open and closed systems with relation to selected scenes from the movie. Questions for discussion and other potential systems-oriented popular films are offered.

The Family Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3, 308-314 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/10680702010003007
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