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perceptualcontrol.nl
Eva’s been writing about perceptual control and method of levels therapy since 2019. On her current site she blogs in Dutch about perception, control and method of levels therapy for a public of lay people […]
PerceptualRobots.com
Website hosted by Dr Rupert Young, an independent researcher and technologist. […]
BiologyOfLaw.org
Hugh Gibbons’ website in support of and as a follow-on to The Death of Jeffrey Stapleton. This site introduces the idea that the sense of justice and law is rooted in our biology and therefore rather uniform around the globe and throughout history. Will is explained using the concepts of PCT. […]
PCT-labs.com
er are Java versions of Powers’ original DOS programs and tutorials, with more conversions to come, such as Living Control Systems III. […]
TheWonderWeeks.com
Website supporting The Wonder Weeks: How to stimulate your babyÂ’s mental development and help him turn his 10 predictable, great, fussy phases into magical leaps forward, by Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij and Frans Plooij.
This book shows how and when the levels of perception outlined by Hierarchical PCT develop in human infants. The English edition enjoys excellent reviews, saying that the predictions about the timing and nature of infant mental development in the first 20 months are right on. […]
PCTresources.com with CSGnet
Site focused on PCT resources and CSG archives. CSGnet, the email list originated in 1992, can be downloaded from here and read in its entirety. Threads on various subjects, created in the early 1990s, called by some “The Best of CSGnet” are featured as pdf files, ensuring that formatting and ASCII figures are properly displayed.
The email list was shut down in December 2020, but discussion continues on the IAPCT Discourse forum. CSGnet email since 1992 is all included in Discourse. Earlier CSGnet posts from 1990, 1991, and the first part of 1992 are in this archive.
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MindReadings.com
Rick Marken’s website features books, articles, demonstrations and other learning materials. The demonstrations are programmed to run using a web-browser. […]
Methodoflevels.nl
Dutch website offering information and training on Method of Levels therapy.
MethodOfLevels.com.au/
Tim Carey’s comprehensive website featuring The Method of Levels (MOL). MOL is a way of talking to people or, perhaps more accurately, a way of helping people listen to themselves, and helping them resolve their emotional distress by themselves, without the therapist “getting in the way” as Tim put it. […]
LivingControlSystems.com
Originated as a site in support of Phil Runkel’s major work People as Living Things, the site expanded to include an extensive list and presentation of PCT literature, post papers on PCT as well as and tutorials and simulations for DOS and Windows computers. The Book of Readings, aka the “PCT Handbook”, is a major reference for PCT. […]
PCTweb.org
This well developed website is maintained by Dr. Warren Mansell from the University of Manchester as an international resource for the dissemination of PCT. Includes information such as what psych students think of PCT, links to YouTube videos, presentations about the Method of Levels and much more. […]
Biology and Neuroscience
Bill Powers developed PCT with biology in mind. We can split the relevance of PCT into two parts – function and structure. […]
Film, Media & Literature
Spiritual truths, 21st Century Renaissance, Computer Games, Pop and Rock Music, & more! […]
Economics & Marketing
To manage a successful business, you need to know what people want, how your business is perceived, and how to deal with people. It’s ripe for a PCT approach! […]
Perceptual Control Theory
Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), a scientific theory developed by William T. Powers (1973) posits that behavior is the control of perception. […]
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
PCT is emerging as a force in robotics. PCT lends itself well to the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics because it provides an exact mathematical framework to model psychological processes. […]
Psychology
In explaining how living things control their perception, PCT is clearly highly relevant to psychology. Contemporary articles are making the case to the wider establishment that closed-loop, circular causality is much closer to how living systems actually function than the approach researchers still use. […]
Interventions for Mental Health Problems
When people find themselves struggling control has been disrupted. It is the loss of control not control, therefore, that is the problem when people are psychologically distressed. […]
Education
Education is about more than teaching. Within education we need to know how to motivate students, how can we maximise the degree to which people learn, and often, how do we manage students or pupils when they don’t want to learn, or they disrupt others? […]
Politics and Philosophy – a PCT introduction
PCT takes a strongly scientific approach to human nature. It proposes that people and other living systems are purposeful – and that the systems that are responsible for purposeful action are explainable in mechanistic terms. […]