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The Study of Living Control Systems
The Study of Living Control Systems, a handbook of research methodology in psychology by Richard S. Marken is available from Cambridge University Press and from booksellers (February 2021).

Method of Levels online training
In 2020 and 2021, Warren Mansell and Eva de Hullu organized an online MOL training to make the method and theory accessible for international participants. The training was hosted on a google site domain. The […]

31st IAPCT Conference
and 2021 Annual Meeting
Online conference, October 2021 […]

30th IAPCT Conference and 2020 Annual Meeting
Thursday & Friday, 8-9 0ctober 2020 (UT) […]

The Straits of W. T. Magellan: A Salute to W. T. Powers
Martin Taylor Note: This salute to William T. Powers, the creator of Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), was posted to the CSGNet discussion list by Martin Taylor on September 15, 2016 and is posted here with […]

PCT Tutorials and Simulations
NOTE: Bill Powers’s work Living Control Systems III : The Fact of Control (2008) with updated Windows programs is recommended. These programs and the book explaining them provide an excellent introduction to PCT. The programs themselves are superior […]

Is Countercontrol the Key to Understanding Chronic Behavior Problems?
Timothy A. Carey and W. Thomas Bourbon https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10534512060420010201

A PCT account of the Basal Ganglia
Henry H. Yin (2016) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1073858416654115

Heather Bell´s PCT simulation of distance control in rival animals
Heather C. Bell, Greg D. Bell, […], and Sergio M. Pellis (2015) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1059712315607606

Basal Ganglia Outputs Map Instantaneous Position Coordinates during Behavior
Joseph W. Barter, Suellen Li, Tatyana Sukharnikova, Mark A. Rossi, Ryan A. Bartholomew, and Henry H. Yin (2015) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark-Rossi-5/publication/272165203_Basal_Ganglia_Outputs_Map_Instantaneous_Position_Coordinates_during_Behavior/links/54dcbf590cf25b09b912c829/Basal-Ganglia-Outputs-Map-Instantaneous-Position-Coordinates-during-Behavior.pdf

Doing Research on Purpose
Richard S. Marken (2014) The core of the book are six papers by Dr. Richard S. Marken which have been published in peer reviewed journals over the past decade explaining why Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) […]

Behavioral Variability in the Service of Constancy
Bell, Heather Christine Journal: International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 27(2)Permalink: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ch4g2x6ISSN 0889-3675Publication Date 2014DOI 10.46867/ijcp.2014.27.02.02 Copyright InformationCopyright 2014 by the author(s).This work is made available under the terms of a CreativeCommons Attribution License, available at […]

How Basal Ganglia Outputs Generate Behavior
Henry H. Yin

Mental health: integration is the key to the revolution – The Lancet
Timothy A. Carey (2013) Article Link: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)62214-X/fulltext Article Info Publication History Published: 26 October 2013 Identification DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62214-X Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ScienceDirect Access this article on ScienceDirect

Motor-Sensory Confluence in Tactile Perception
Avraham Saig,* Goren Gordon,* Eldad Assa, Amos Arieli, and Ehud Ahissar 14022 • The Journal of Neuroscience, October 3, 2012 • 32(40):14022–14032 https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/40/14022.short

How Can Perceptual Control Theory Enhance the Practice of Psychological Therapies? A working Bibliography
Assembled by Sarah Alsawy & Warren Mansell (August 2012) Historical and Philosophical Context lntegrative & Transdiagnostic Theoretical articles PCT, Core Processes, Goal Conflict and Mental Health – Research Studies Method of Levels – lntroductory articles […]

Crisis intervention in Mental Health settings based on PCT
Mark Lazare (April 2012)

Language Acquisition in Human Infants. Can Control Theory Provide an Integrative Account?
Emma-Jane Greig, & Warren Mansell (2011)

Perceptual Control Theory
A Model for Understanding the
Mechanisms and Phenomena of Control
William T. Powers, Bruce Abbott, Timothy A. Carey, David M. Goldstein, Warren Mansell, Richard S. Marken, Bruce Nevin, Richard Robertson, & Martin Taylor (2011)

Discussion between Steven Hayes and Bill Powers (2011)
Hello, all — Attached is a nice article by Fred Nichols (http://www.nickols.us/ManageYOP.pdf) who is a management consultant and a long-time CSG (control system group) member. It has a bearing on the difference between ACT (Steve […]

Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) Applied to
Personality, Psychotherapy,
and Psychopathology
David M. Goldstein, John White, & William T. Powers (Dec 2011)

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Approaches to a Science of Life
Word Pictures and Correlations versus Working Models Dag Forssell (2011)

‘EUREKA!’
Philip McNamee (2011)