charis katakis is a phd psychologist the laboratory for the study of human relations which she founded is a member of the training chamber of the european association of family therapy efta the european association of psychotherapyeap hellenic association of systemic therapy helasythshe is involved in the clinical psychology field education specialists in the area of mental health research and related publications she is an approved supervisor of the american association of family and marriage therapy aamft at the founders level in 2007 she has been awarded honorary membership to the european association of psychotherapyshe has played an active role in many organizations and associations the first president of the hellenic association for systemic therapy helasyth board member of the chamber of the national family therapy associations of the european family therapy association eftalaboratory for the study of human relations board member of the therapy center for depended individuals kethea board member of the national organization for combating drugs okana founding member of the greek systems group board member of axiotis an association for the improvement of the functioning of board member and twice candidate for president of the international association of family therapy ifta chair person of the ifta 1996 international congress which was organized by the public sectorsome of her thoughts and concepts have been mentioned as follows in one of hers books called reflections on the state of greek psychology she explains why the developments in greece have been delayed enough and also why the recent ones have not been invisible and perceptible to the world wide web and the associations concerning the psychology situation in greecein addition the operational definition of her notion in the book called the selfreferential conceptual system is the selfreference a central idea in the context of cognitive scienceit describes the way a particular person family or any other social group apprehends itself in relation to its environment and its aggregated life situationeven a superficial glimpse of the family therapy field would be enough to convince anyone that family dynamics and interactional patterns are almost invariably discussed as universal and stable phenomena different processes for different therapies is the logo for therapists actions therapeutic bond and outcometeleonomic entropy in order to make it more suitable for understanding the functioning of such biopsychosocial systems its definition has to be extendedthis article recommends the new sense of teleonomic entropy teleonomic entropy at the physicochemical level is related to but not selfsame to physicochemical entropy