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The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory, Volume II: Living in the Loop

March 8, 2023 iapct board

Second volume of the Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory: Living in the Loop. Edited by Warren Mansell, Eva de Hullu, Vyv Huddy and Tom Scholte. Elsevier, 2023. […]

Bill Powers

Review of Living Control Systems III: The Fact of Control (by Nature/Vol 456/2008)

December 17, 2022 WM
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Patient-Perspective Care: A New Paradigm for Health Systems and Services

December 11, 2022 iapct board

Timothy A. Carey Routledge; 1st edition (December 1, 2017) Book description Inappropriate health care is an escalating and expensive problem. It affects high income, middle income, and low income countries and wastes billions of dollars […]

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Controlling PEOPLE: The Paradoxical Nature of Being Human

December 11, 2022 iapct board

Richard S. Marken, and Timothy A. Carey  Australian Academic Press (February 3, 2016) Book description “We need to strive for a world where people control what is important to themselves while minimizing the controlling of […]

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Hold That Thought! Two Steps to Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy with the Method of Levels

December 11, 2022 iapct board

Timothy A. Carey New View Pubns (January 1, 2008) Book description Believing that people with psychological problems get themselves better, Australian clinical psychologist, academic and researcher Timothy A. Carey introduces readers to the Method of […]

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The Method of Levels. How to do Psychotherapy Without Getting in the Way

December 11, 2022 Dag Forssell

Timothy A. Carey “I’ve just finished the Method of Levels, and I’m astonished, delighted, and inspired. I was a psychotherapist for many years, using a variety of approaches (predominantly Gestalt Therapy, several versions of family […]

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Powers of Perceptual Control

July 2, 2022 iapct board

Martin Taylor’s ongoing book project describing the foundations of perceptual control theory and its many implications. […]

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The Dilemma of Enquiry and Learning

March 22, 2022 Dag Forssell

Hugh G. Petrie “I think that this book will be ‘compulsory reading’ in graduate schools of education around the country, and that it will arouse a vigorous and healthy controversy by shaking people out of […]

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Ways of Learning and Knowing: The Epistemology of Education

March 22, 2022 Dag Forssell

Hugh G. Petrie “For most of his career, Hugh was way ahead of his time. His papers in this volume still are. The role of the evolutionary process of blind variation and selective retention in […]

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Casting Nets and Testing Specimens— Two Grand Methods of Psychology

March 22, 2022 Dag Forssell

Phil Runkel The spring semester is nearly half completed. I am using your book in two classes. My experience this year is identical to that last year., when I wrote to you, “As time passes […]

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Control in the Classroom. An Adventure in Learning and Achievement

March 22, 2022 Dag Forssell

Timothy A. Carey “This new book is a great addition to the educational literature. It introduces educators to the most important and revolutionary new development in psychology in decades, PCT. And it does this in […]

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Management and Leadership: Insight for Effective Practice

March 21, 2022 Dag Forssell

Dag Forssell “When i first learned of PCT about seven years ago, I read everything I could get my hands on and your articles, for me, most clearly explained PCT. Somehow, your unique use of […]

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The Method of Levels— How to do Psychotherapy Without Getting in the Way

March 21, 2022 Dag Forssell

Timothy A. Carey “I’ve just finished the Method of Levels, and I’m astonished, delighted, and inspired. I was a psychotherapist for many years, using a variety of approaches (predominantly Gestalt Therapy, several versions of family […]

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People as Living Things. The Psychology of Perceptual Control

March 20, 2022 Dag Forssell

Philip J. Runkel “I started reading your book to see whatever you have to say about systems. Then I really got fascinated by your book and read it from start to finish. Very impressive! And […]

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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Approaches to a Science of Life. Word Pictures and Correlations versus Working Models

March 19, 2022 Dag Forssell

William T. Powers & Philip J. Runken Throughout this volume, Phil and Bill exchange candid assessments of the players, methods and dominant approaches in psychology and the social sciences, and the difficulties that go with […]

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PCT: A Book of Readings. An Overview of the Third Grand Theory in Psychology Introductions, Readings, and Resources 

March 19, 2022 Dag Forssell

Dag Forssell, Editor The May 2016 edition is now a 424-page book that includes 34 papers with selections from 26 books. Subjects include psychotherapy, management, emotions, baby brain development, computer simulations and tutorials, scientific revolutions, […]

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The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory: Living Control Systems IV

January 30, 2022 iapct board

Edited by Warren Mansell First edition – May 16, 2020 The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory brings together the latest research, theory, and applications from W. T. Powers’ Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) that proposes […]

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The Study of Living Control Systems

February 28, 2021 iapct board

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).

Bill Powers

Behavior: The Control of Perception

January 29, 1973 Dag Forssell

William T. Powers Preface This book represents, I hope, a step on the path back to a concept of man as autonomous, and away from the concept of man as automaton. Yet in allowing my […]

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