Links
Several independent websites provide in-depth information about Perceptual Control Theory.
This list copied from IAPCT.org
This well developed website is maintained by Dr. Warren Mansell from the University of Manchester as an international resource for the dissemination of PCT. Includes information such as what psych students think of PCT, links to YouTube videos, presentations about the Method of Levels and much more.
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.
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. Note also Tim's blogs at Psychology Today and Mad in America.
Want to know more about PCT and MOL? Join a new discussion group by sending an email to mol-on@mail-list.com or subscribe here. Once your subscription has been confirmed, send messages to mol@mail-list.com.
Rick Marken's website features books, articles, demonstrations and other learning materials. The demonstrations are programmed to run using a web-browser.
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.
To join the CSGnet email discussion group, go to https://lists.illinois.edu/lists/arc/csgnet.
Website supporting The Wonder Weeks: How to stimulate your baby’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.
Website hosted by Dr Rupert Young, an independent researcher and technologist.
Adam Matic’s demo programs for your browser are Java versions of Powers’ original DOS programs and tutorials, with more conversions to come, such as Living Control Systems III.
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.
BillPCT.org
Programs for use with Living Control Systems III. You do need the book to properly understand and run the programs.
Personal/partial sites
Bruce Nevin, longtime PCT contributor, has written a paper for linguists that integrates empirical linguistics and Perceptual Control Theory. See http://www.zelligharris.org/Embodied.grammar.pdf.
Richard Kennaway, Research Fellow at the school of computing sciences at the University of East Anglia and collaborator with Bill Powers on Bill's 2008 book Living Control Systems III: http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/
Notice Perceptual control theory and robotics as well as Real-time procedural humanoid animation, also an application of PCT.
Bruce Abbott, professor of psychology at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), and collaborator with Bill Powers on Windows programs for Bill's 2008 book Living Control Systems III, has posted this synopsis of PCT. http://users.ipfw.edu/abbott/pct/pct.html
Management Consultant Fred Nickols has written several papers introducing PCT in plain management language. http://www.nickols.us/controltheory.html Check out the links in red.
Martin Taylor, a long-time contributor to CSGnet considers his Layered Protocol Theory to be a subset of PCT. Here are some of his musings: http://www.mmtaylor.net/PCT/
Allison Powers has established a Facebook page, WTPowersArchives, featuring the transfer of Bill Powers' personal archives to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Review and indexing of the materials is underway. Archivist: Kevin Leonard.
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