The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory, Volume II

Dr. Mansell has written over sixty interdisciplinary publications on perceptual control theory, has convened three international conferences on PCT, and hosts a website pctweb.org that has received over 35,000 views since its inception in 2009. His work on PCT has appeared on UK national television, in science museums, and online newspaper and magazine articles. He has authored and edited various books, including: Coping with Fears and Phobias (2007), A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy (2012), Principles-Based Counselling and Psychotherapy (2015), Oxford Guide to Metaphors in CBT (2010), and The Bluffer’s Guide to Psychology (2006). Eva de Hullu is assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the Open University, the Netherlands. She is also the current Chair of the International Association of Perceptual Control Theory (IAPCT) and has presented work on PCT in IAPCT conferences. (eva.dehullu@ou.nl) Vyv Huddy is a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has co-authored a number of published articles utilising PCT across the field of psychology research. He is qualified in Clinical Psychology at Royal Holloway (University of London) in 2008. His first post as clinical psychologist was in research, where he joined a team developing Cognitive Remediation Therapy for psychosis. During this post, and subsequently working in a prison and acute inpatient mental health settings, he became interested in developing patient perspective therapy for secondary care, inpatient and other secure settings. Very recently, he has also become interested in taking a community psychology approach to working alongside communities and organisations to develop their resources and agency - 64 Million Artists (https://64millionartists.com) are a key partner in a line of research on this topic. (v.huddy@sheffield.ac.uk) Tom Scholte is a Professor of Acting and Directing in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada located on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. He is also the Faculty Lead/Artistic Director of Conflict Theatre@UBC and the host of the Systems and Cybernetics section of the New Book Network, and hosted the 2019 American Cybernetics Society Annual Conference. (tom.scholte@ubc.ca)

SECTION 1: Perception, Consciousness, and Imagination

1. Exploring the Perceptual Control Hierarchy

Eva de Hullu

2. "Conflict to Collage": A Perceptual Control Theory Architecture to Underpin Human Consciousness

Warren Mansell

3. Loss and Restoration of Control: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective on the Role of Mental Simulation

Vyv Huddy and Warren Mansell

SECTION 2: Computational and Mathematical Modeling

4. Motor Control as the Control of Perception

Maximilian Gregory Parker

5. Perceptual Control Theory Multiple Agent Interaction: A Classical Control Theory Treatment

Philip S. E. Farrell

6. Learning Curves and Psychological Change Across Populations: The Implications of Reorganization

Vyv Huddy

SECTION 3: Health Applications

7. Connecting Perceptual Control theory with Health Behavior

Jonathan Sigger

8. Cancer and Control

Mike Rennoldson

9. Designing Mental Health Services that are Fit for Purpose Using the Principles of Perceptual Control Theory

Robert Griffiths

10. Communication in Dementia: The Development of a New Understanding and Training Intervention that is Informed by Perceptual Control Theory

Phil McEvoy and Lydia Morris

SECTION 4: Schooling and Education

11. Creating Connected Schools

Shelley A.W. Roy

12. PCT and Philosophy of Education: Education as Guidance of Reorganization

Eetu Pikkarainen

SECTION 5: The Self and Society

13. Human Culture Is Based on Mechanisms of Perceptual Control

Ted Cloak

14. Sources and Dynamics of the Self: Perceptual Control Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Control of Self-Image

Brian D'Agostino

15. Reorganization as Anti-Oppression: PCT, the Method of Levels, and the Theatre of the Oppressed

Tom Scholte

SECTION 6: Synthesis

16. Synthesis: Living in the Loop

Tom Scholte, Eva de Hullu, Vyv Huddy, and Warren Mansell