Henry H. Yin (2016)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1073858416654115
Bill Powers
About William T. (Bill) Powers
August 29, 1026 – May 24, 2013 Bill provided this autobiographical sketch in July, 2006: I was in the Navy from age 17 to 19 (1944 to 1946), which is where I learned electronics, […]
Books
Principles-Based Counselling and Psychotherapy
A Method of Levels approach
Timothy A. Carey, Warren Mansell, and Sara J. Tai 2015, Routledge. ISBN 9780415738781 Book Description Many current approaches to the treatment of psychological problems focus on specific disorders and techniques that are purported to be […]
Bill Powers
Perceptual Control Theory at 40
This intro to PCT is slanted toward those coming into to this subject from the physical sciences. Bill Powers develops an argument that leads from conventional views of behavior to the new view that PCT gives us, emphasizing in the end the odd role that organisms, seen through the eyes of PCT, play in a world otherwise dominated by physical laws. The point will be to show that control theory provides us with the germ of a radically new understanding, a break with all traditional theories of behavior—and many new ones as well […]