An historical holistic thread in the dynamical fabric of psychology

Autor: Frederick David Abraham
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: World Futures. 49:159-201
ISSN: 1556-1844
0260-4027
DOI: 10.1080/02604027.1997.9972628
Popis: This essay can be viewed as a biased historical sampler of some dynamical concepts in psychological science. Here three main threads that could be considered: (1) The holistic approaches of Gestalt, field, event‐structure, and ecological perceptual‐action theories, (2) the cybernetic‐neural‐behavioral‐general systems approaches, and (3) the dynamical thread. This essay considers the first thread. Section A2 contains a miniscule first attempt at a hypothetico‐deductive dynamical formalization of Lewin which Loye once requested of me.
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