Descriptive Psychology Institute Resources
Books
Descriptive Psychology:
The Behavior of Persons. Peter G. Ossorio, Descriptive Psychology Press, 2006. -more-
Status Dynamics:
Status Dynamics: Creating New Paths to Therapeutic Change. Raymond M. Bergner, Ph.D., Burns Park Publishers, 2007.
Essays on clinical topics: The collected works of Peter G. Ossorio, Volume II. Peter G. Ossorio, Descriptive Psychology Press, 1997. -more-
Representing Complex Knowledge:
"What Actually Happens": The Representation of Real-World Phenomena. The collected works of Peter G. Ossorio, Volume II. Peter G. Ossorio, Descriptive Psychology Press, 2005.
Complex Organizations:
Ally Relationships: The Key to Sustained Success for Your Service Business. Anthony O. Putman, Burns Park Publishers, 2007. -more-
Papers
Descriptive Psychology:
"Notes on Behavior Description" by Peter G. Ossorio, 1967. -read-
"Explanation Falsifiablilty and Rule Following" by Peter G. Ossorio, 1967. -read-
"Outline of Descriptive Psychology" by Peter G. Ossorio, 1970
"Never Smile at a Crocodile" by Peter G. Ossorio, 1972. -read-
"Religion Without Doctrine" by Peter G. Ossorio, 1978. -read-
"Ex Post Facto: The Source of Intractable Origin Problems and Their Resolution" by Peter G. Ossorio, 1981. -read-
"Why Descriptive Psychology?" by Peter G. Ossorio, 1983. -read-
"What There Is, How Things Are" by Peter G. Ossorio, 1996.
"Ordinary Magic: What Descriptive Psychology Is, and Why It Matters" by Anthony O. Putman, 2008. -read-
"Ordinary Magic Part II: How Ordinary People Create the Real World, At a Glance and Out of Nowhere" by Anthony O. Putman, 2009. -read-
"Descriptive Psychology and Science" by Anthony O. Putman, 2010. -read-
Status Dynamics:
"Worlds and world reconstruction" by Mary K. Roberts, in K. Davis & T. Mitchell (eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology (Vol. 4). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1985.
"World reconstruction in psychotherapy" by Raymond M. Bergner, in American Journal of Psychotherapy, 59, 1-17, 2005.
Representing Complex Knowledge:
"The Irrationality Illusion: A New Parsdigm for Economics and Behavioral Economics" by H. Joel Jeffrey and Anthony O. Putman, 2011. -read-
"Expanding the Range of Behavioral Factors in Economic Simulations" by H. Joel Jeffrey, in The Journal of Behavioral Finance Vol. 7, No. 2, 97–106, 2006. -read-
"High-Fidelity Mathematical Models of Social Systems
Complex Organizations" by H. Joel Jeffrey, 2007. -read-
Complex Organizations:
“Living in a World of Multiple Perspectives” by C.J. Peek, in Mental Health Professionals in Medical Settings: A Primer. Patterson, Peek, Heinrich, Bischoff, and Sherger, Norton, 2002.
"Organizations" by Anthony O. Putman, in Advances in Descriptive Psychology Vol. 5, Descriptive Psychology Press, 1990. -read-
"Playing the Person Game in Healthcare" by C.J. Peek and Richard L. Heinrich, in Advances in Descriptive Psychology Vol. 8, Descriptive Psychology Press, 2006. -read-
End of Life Care:
"Navigating a World of Multiple Perspectives in End of life Care" by Richard Heinrich, M.D., 2006. -read-
"Hospice Volunteers of Uncertain Status: Descriptive Psychology meets the Ethics of Caring Relationships" by Richard Heinrich, M.D., 2007. -read-
"Caring for Persons with Dementia at the End of Life" by
Richard Heinrich, M.D. , USC Department of Psychology Workshop, 2008. -read-
"Culture Change in Hospice of the Lakes: Multi-disciplinary to Inter-disciplinary" by Richard Heinrich, M.D., 2008. -read-
"Interviewing at the End of Life: A Descriptive Formulation" by
Richard Heinrich, M.D., Summer, 2009 -read-
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