General theory of systems : Application to psychology

Allport, G. 1961 Pattern of growth in personality. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Arieti, S. 1959 " Schizophrenia ", in : Arieti, S. , ed. American handbook of psychiatry. Vol. I. New York, Basic Books.

1964 Contributions to cognition from psychoanalytic theory. Address to the Academy of Psychoanalysis, Montreal. Dec. 26.

Berlyne, D.E. 1960 Conflict, arousal and curiosity New York, McGraw-Hill.

Bertalanffy, L. Von 1928 Kritische Theorie der Formbildung. Berlin, Bornträger. English translation : Modern theories of development. New York, Harper Torchbooks, 1962 .

1929 " Vorschlag zweier sehr allgemeiner biologischer Gesetze " (Studien über theoretischc Biologic, 3), Biologisches Zentralblatt 49 : 83-111.

1937 Das Gefiige des Lebens. Leipzig, Teubner.

1956 " A biologist looks at human nature ", The scientific Monthly 82 : 33-41. Reprinted in : Daniel, R. , ed. Contemporary readings in psychology . Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1959. And also in : Beck, S. ; Molish, H. , eds. Reflexes to intelligence : A reader in clinical psychology. Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press, 1959.

1960 Problems of life. New York, Harper Torchbooks.

1964 " On the definition of the symbol ", p. 26-72 in : Royce, J. , ed. Psychology and the symbol : An interdisciplinary symposium. New York, Random House .

Buhler, C. 1959 " Theoretical observations about life's basic tendencies ", American Journal of Psychotherapy 13 : 561-581.

Carmichael, L. , ed. 1954 Manual of child psychology. 2nd ed. New York, Wiley.

Cassirer, E. 1953-57 The philosophy of symbolic forms. 3 vol. New Haven, Yale University Press.

Cowdry, E. 1955 Cancer cells. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders.

Franks, V. 1959 " Das homöostatische Prinzip und die dynamische Psychologie ", Zeitschrift für Psychotherapie und medizinische Psychologie 9 : 41-47.

1960 " Irrwege seelenärztlichen Denkens (Monadologismus, Potentialismus und Kaleidoskopismus) ", Der Nervenarzt 31 : 385-392.

Hebb, D. 1949 The organization of behavior New York , Wiley.

Herrick, C. 1956 The evolution of human nature. New York , Harper Torchbooks.

Holst, E. von. 1937 " Vom Wesen der Ordnung im Zentralnervensystem ", Naturwissenschaften 25 : 625-631, 641-647.

Kaplan, B. 1965 Meditations on Genesis. Lecture to the Boston Psychoanalytic Society. Feb. 24.

Koestler, A. 1967 The ghost in the machine London , Hutchinson.

Lersch, P. ; THOMAs, H. , eds. 1960 Persönlichkeitsforschung und Persönlichkeitstheorie. Handbuch der Psychologie. Vol. 4. Göttingen, Hogrefe.

Magoun, H. 1958 The waking brain. Springfield, Ill. , Charles C. Thomas.

Menninger, K. ; Mayman, M. ; Pruyser, P. 1963 The vital balance New York, Viking Press.

Miller, J.G. 1965 " Living systems ", Behavioral Science 10 : 193-237, 337-411.

Piaget, J. 1959 The construction of reality in the child New York, Basic Books.

Rothacker, E. 1947 Die Schichten der Persönlichkeit. 3rd ed. Leipzig, Barth.

Schachtel, E.G. 1959 Metamorphosis New York, Basic Books .

Sorokin, P.A. 1966 Sociological theories of today New York , Harper and Row.

Weaver, W. 1948 " Science and complexity ", American Scientist 36 (4) : 536-544.

Werner, H. 1957 Comparative psychology of mental development ( 1940). Revised ed. New York, International Universities Press.

Whyte, L. 1960 The unconscious before Freud New York , Basic Books.

Allport, G. 1955 Becoming : Basic consideration for a psychology of personality . New Haven, Yale University Press , 1955. (Psychological theory from a viewpoint close to general systems theory.)

1960 " The open system in personality theory ", Journal of abnormal and social Psychology 61 : 301-310. Reprinted in Personality and social encounter. Boston, Beacon Press.

Berk, R.J.C. 1965 " Some results of modern brain research supporting psychoanalytical theories ", Fortschritte der Psychoanalyse 3, in press.

Bertalanffy, L. von 1950 " An outline of general system theory ", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1 : 134-165. (General systems in elementary mathematical consideration.)

1953 Biophysik des Fliessgleichgewichts. Transl. by W. Westphal. Braunschweig, Vieweg. (Theory of open systems; bibliography.)

1962 " General system theory : A critical review ", General Systems 7 : 1-20. (Survey of the field, principles, application, relations of general systems theory and cybernetics, bibliography, etc.)

1964 " The mind-body problem : A new view ", Psychosomatic Medicine 24 : 29-45. (The psychophysical problem from a system-theoretical viewpoint. )

1964 " Basic concepts in quantitative biology of metabolism ", p. 5-38 in: Locker, A. ; Kinne, O. , eds. Quantitative biology of metabolism. Heide-Holst, Boyens (Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, 9). (Chapter on open systems with bibliography of recent work.)

1966 " General system theory and psychiatry ", in : Arieti, S. , ed. American handbook of psychiatry . Vol. 3. New York, Basic Books.

General Systems 1956 Yearbooks of the Society for General Systems Research . Ed. by L. von Bertalanffy and A. Rapoport. Bedford, Mass., P.O. Box 208, Society for General Systems Research. 11 vol. since 1956. (Best introduction into General Systems theory : principles, elaboration, application to various fields.)

Gray, W. ; Rizzo, N.D. ; Duhl, F.J. , eds. 1967 General Systems and psychiatry. New Hork, Little, Brown, in press.

HALL, A. 1962 A methodology for systems engineering. Princeton, N.J., van Nostrand. (Textbook of applied systems research; possible application to the sciences of man.)

Hearn, G. 1958 Theory building in social work Toronto , University of Toronto Press.

Lektorsky, V.A. ; Sadovsky, V.N. 1960 " On principles of system research (related to L. Bertalanffy's general system theory) ", General Systems 5 : 171-179. (Evaluation of general system theory from the Soviet viewpoint.)

Maccia, E. ; Maccia, G. ; Andros, J. ; Thompson, K. 1965 Graph theory as it relates to General Systems theory . Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, Educational Theory Center, occasional paper 65-182, mimeo.

1965 Set theory as it relates to General Systems theory. Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, Educational Theory Center, occasional paper 65-184, mimeo.

1966 An integration of set theory, information theory, and graph theory with General Systems theory; Variables. Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, Educational Theory Center , occasional paper 65-185, mimeo. (Axiomatization leading to SIGGS theory, i.e., integration of set, information, graph, and General Systems theories.)

Menninger, K. 1954 " The psychological aspects of the organism under stress ", Journal of the American psychoanalytic Association 2 : 67-106, 230-310. Reprinted in General Systems 2, 1957 : 142-172. (Equilibrium concept of mental disease.)

1963 The vital balance. New York, Viking Press. (Theory of mental illness from organismic and system-theoretic viewpoint.)

Metzger, W. 1965 " Über Modellvorstellungen in der Psychologie ", Studium Generale 18 : 346-352. (Evaluation of model concepts.)

Morchio, R. 1959 " Gli organismi biologici come sistemi aperti stazionari nel modello teorico di L. von Bertalanffy ", Nuovo Cimento 12, ser. X, Supplement 1 : 100-119.

Systems Symposia At Case Institute Of Technology 1961-64 Systems : Research and design (Proceedings, I), ed. by D.P. Eckman. Views on General Systems theory (Proceedings, II), ed. by M.D. Mesarovic. New York, Wiley . (Systems engineering.)

Zerbst, E. 1963 " Untersuchung zur Veränderung energetischer Fliessgleichgewichte bei physiologischen Anpassungsvorgangen, I, II ". Pfliigers Archiv für d. gesamte Physiologie 277 : 434-445, 446-457. (Computerization of systems problems.)