Organismic Psychology and Systems Theory
Author : Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Publisher : [Worcester, Mass.] : Clark University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Author : Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Publisher : [Worcester, Mass.] : Clark University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Author : Irma Stein
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Medical
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Author : William Gray
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Medical
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Author : Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2015
Category : System theory
ISBN : 9780807600153
The classic book on a major modern theory
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Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Mechanism (Philosophy)
ISBN :
Theories are important scientific tools that can explain, predict, and control natural phenomena. Although most psychological theories are classified into one of four theoretical schools of thought, they are divided according to a more fundamental debate as to whether the origins of intrapsychic functioning adhere to mechanistic or vitalistic principles. Mechanistic principles address the passive and reactive nature of intrapsychic functioning, whereas vitalistic principles address its active and spontaneous nature. As mechanistic and vitalistic principles appear to be limiting in their one-sided orientations, this study proposes that there is a need for an organismic approach to theories of intrapsychic functioning. As a theoretical alternative, the general systems theory will be discussed as a holistic framework of living systems that incorporates the organismic principles of open systems and hierarchical order. Based in the organismic principles of the general systems theory, the Total Self System model is presented as a holistic conceptualization of intrapsychic functioning that addresses the intrapsychic system as a dynamic process that operates as an interconnected part of universal wholeness.
Author : Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Publisher : George Braziller Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Science
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Author : Markus Locker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606087398
The contributions to the collection explore the interplay between systems theory, religion and theology, and the symbolic expressions and philosophical foundations of these academic disciplines. This endeavor is rooted in the oeuvre of the late Austrian physicist Alfred Locker (1922-2005), who firmly believed that systems theory would finally emerged, some sixty years after Bertalanffy's seminal work on General System Theory, as a bridge-building metatheory between the sciences and religion. The studies contained in this collection enter into a critical evaluation and reassessment of the dominant postulates of scientific and theological systems and their interaction, including treatments of paradoxes (A. Locker), the inner sciences (Zwick), systems of meaning (Krieger), philosophy (Murphy), theology (Sedmak), isomorphies of religious symbols (Zwick), and the bridging of science and religion (A. Locker).
Author : Susan Oyama
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2003-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262650632
The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DST has excited interest from a wide range of researchers, from molecular biologists to anthropologists, because of its ability to integrate evolutionary theory and other disciplines without falling into traditional oppositions.The book provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity, applications of the DST framework to behavioral development, implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.
Author : Benjamin B. Wolman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1468438212
Twenty years is a long time in the life of a science. While the historical roots of psychology have not changed since the first edition of this book, some of the offshoots of the various theories and systems discussed have been crit ically reexamined and have undergone far-reaching modifications. New and bold research has led to a broadening of perspectives, and recent devel opments in several areas required a considerable amount of rewriting. I have been fortunate in the last fifteen years to have worked with about 2,000 psychologists and other behavioral scientists who contributed to several collected volumes I have edited. As the editor-in-chief of the In ternational Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurol ogy, I have had the privilege of reading, scrutinizing, and editing the work of 1,500 experts in psychology and related disciplines. In addition, I have written several books and monographs and over one hundred scientific papers. Armed with all that experience, I have carefully examined the pages of the first edition. Chapter 8 required substantial rewriting and several new sections have been added to other chapters: "Current Soviet Psychol ogy" (Chapter 2, Section 7); "New Ideas on Purposivism" (Chapter 5, Sec tion 4); "Recent Developments in the Sociological School of Psychoanalysis" (Chapter 9, Section 4); and "Present Status of Gestalt Psychology" (Chapter 12, Section 4). Chapter 15 was omitted, and two new chapters were added: Chapter 14 ("Humanistic Psychology") and Chapter 16 ("Selected Research Areas").
Author : Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Publisher : New York : G. Braziller
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807604533
Gathered here are Ludwig von Bertalanffy's writings on general systems theory, selected and edited to show the evolution of systems theory and to present it applications to problem solving.