[1] His major work, Psychologie Consonantiste, first published in 1938-39 in Paris, introduced the concept of feedback in psychology.

He practiced medicine as a military doctor in cities including Bucharest, Dej, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Lugoj, and Târgoviște.

In 1937, he participated in the IXth International Congress of Military Medicine with a paper entitled "Demonstration de phonoscopie", where he disseminated a prospectus in French, announcing the appearance of his future work, "The Consonantist Psychology".

[2] The most important of his writings is Psychologie consonantiste, in which Odobleja lays the theoretical foundations of the generalized cybernetics.

[7] In 1982 a group of scientists established in Lugoj the Cybernetics Academy "Ștefan Odobleja", an organization dedicated to promoting a better knowledge of general cybernetics;[5] the organization is registered in Lugano, Switzerland, and is financed by the controversial Romanian billionaire Iosif Constantin Drăgan.