Books by Living Control Systems Publishing
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PCT: A Book of Readings
An Overview of the Third Grand Theory in Psychology
Introductions, Readings, and Resources
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, dogma in psychology, scientific method, reverse engineering, robots, cybernetics, and more.
xvi, 408 pages, 8.25x11 inches,
illustrated, paperback. ©
2016
Living Control Systems Publishing,
Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 9781938090127 |
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief
Approaches to a Science of Life
—Word Pictures and Correlations versus Working Models
Troughout 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 advocating an entirely new framework for doing science. You follow Phil Runkel's thinking as he comes to grips with PCT thanks to Bill Powers's patient tutoring, understands it and its significance, and develops his subsequent books: Casting Nets and Testing Specimens, and People as Living Things.
610
pages, 8.25x11
inches, paperback. ©
2011 Living Control Systems Publishing, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-9740155-1-2 |
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People
as Living Things
—The Psychology of Perceptual Control
“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 a feast of recognition where you
say that integrating PCT into your thinking does not come overnight
but takes years. Your knowledge of the psychological literature
is enormous and the way you linked PCT thinking with that literature
(or discussed it against the background of that literature) was
very instructive to me.” —Frans X. Plooij, Director,
International Research-institute on Infant Studies (IRIS), The
Netherlands
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2003 Philip J. Runkel. 539 pages, 8.25x11
inches, illustrated, paperback. Living Control Systems
Publishing, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-9740155-0-4 |
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The Method of Levels—
How to do
Psychotherapy Without Getting in the Way
"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 therapy,
and more recently Psychology of Mind), and while my clients were
often happy with the results, I frequently wasn't. My fundamental
dissatisfaction arose from the fact that I never knew WHY we were
successful when we were, and what had gone wrong or failed to
go right when we weren't. Now I think maybe at last I know."
— Kalen Hammann, Ph.D.
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2006 Timothy A. Carey.
200 pages, 8.25x11 inches, illustrated,
paperback. Living Control Systems Publishing,
Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-9740155-4-7 |
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Management and Leadership:
Insight for Effective Practice
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 language, (perhaps it's more humanizing?) allowed
me to understand it better, whereas much that was written (that
seems to be changing) is so technical. The result being, if one
has not mastered PCT language one becomes lost—at least for a
time. Your explanations revealed PCT almost immediately for me.
— David Hubbard, LMHC
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2008 Dag C. Forssell. 104 pages, 8.25x11 inches,
illustrated, paperback. Living Control Systems Publishing,
Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-9740155-5-5 |
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Control in the Classroom
—An Adventure in Learning and Achievement
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 an easy, accessible style. It has something for everyone in education, from pre-school teachers to secondary teachers, as well as their students. Even college instructors and educational policy makers can find much of value in this slim volume.
... Read this book! You’ll be glad you did. — Hugh G. Petrie
© 2012 Timothy A. Carey. 178 pages, 6.9 x 9.6 inches, illustrated. Living Control Systems Publishing, Menlo Park, CA. Paperback: ISBN 0-9740155-4-7 Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-938090-11-0 |
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Casting
Nets and Testing Specimens
— Two Grand Methods of Psychology
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 … I am increasingly convinced that your book ranks alongside Bill's [Powers] book in 1973 as a seminal work in the new behavioral science." So it is. —Tom Bourbon, 1991
© 1990, 2007, Philip J. Runkel 8.25x11 inches,
illustrated. Living Control Systems Publishing,
Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-9740155-7-1 |
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Ways of Learning and Knowing:
The Epistemology of Education
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 all knowledge processes and the understanding of behavior as the control of perception are still mostly unknown in mainstream educational research, theory and philosophy. These perspectives, combined with Hugh’s analytical skills and accessible writing, lead to some radical (and radically useful) implications for our understanding of the process of knowledge growth and the practice of education. — Gary Cziko
© 2012 by Hugh G. Petrie. 371 pages, 6.7 x 9.6 inches, illustrated. Living Control Systems Publishing, Menlo Park, CA. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-938090-06-6 Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-938090-07-3 |
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The Dilemma of Enquiry and Learning
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 unexamined assumptions and compelling them to rethink stale issues in fresh terms. — Stephen Toulmin
© 1981, 2011 Hugh G. Petrie. 252 pages, 6.7 x 9.6 inches, illustrated. Living Control Systems Publishing, Menlo Park, CA. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-9740155-3-8 Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-938090-04-2 |
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The Death of Jeffrey Stapleton:
Exploring the Way Lawyers Think
Hugh Gibbons explains:
I wrote this manuscript to serve as part of the orientation for new students at the law school. The case of Jeffrey Stapleton was presented during the orientation as a trial, with the new students as the jury. I figured that students would be more accepting of the explanation that I provided than would practicing lawyers, who simply practice without reflection. The fact that lawyers need not reflect on what they are doing to be good at lawyering offered powerful support for my proposition that what is spelled out in this analysis, Perceptual Control Theory, PCT, is simply a correct explanation for how lawyers and all humans actually work.
© 2013 Hugh Gibbons. 232 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, illustrated. Living Control Systems Publishing, Menlo Park, CA. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-938090-08-0 Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-938090-09-7 |
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The Rubber Band Demo
Th rubber band demonstration, designed to introduce and demonstrate the basic concept of PCT, created by Bill Powers, is featured in several books on PCT, starting with Behavior: The Control of Perception, with an illustrated version in Management and Leadership, page 29. This is the most elaborate and detailed exposition of the rubber band demonstration. |
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