Publications

Bruce Nevin, longtime PCT contributor, has written a number of papers about PCT for linguists and about linguistics for PCT researchers. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Website hosted by Dr Rupert Young, an independent researcher and technologist. […]

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. […]

er are Java versions of Powers’ original DOS programs and tutorials, with more conversions to come, such as Living Control Systems III. […]

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. […]

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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Rick Marken’s website features books, articles, demonstrations and other learning materials. The demonstrations are programmed to run using a web-browser. […]

Dutch website offering information and training on Method of Levels therapy.

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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

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).

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 […]

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 […]

Timothy A. Carey and W. Thomas Bourbon https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10534512060420010201