Publications
"What Actually Happens": The representation of real world phenomena in behavioral science. The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. IV / Hardcover : 2005
Essays on Clinical Topics: The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. II. / Hardcover : 1997
Meaning and Symbolism. The collected works of Peter G. Ossorio (Vol. VI) / Hardcover : 2010
Personality and Personality Theories: The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio Vol. IX / Hardcover : 2015
Persons. The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. I. / Hardcover : 1995
Place. Collected works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. III / Paperback : 2012
Seminar on Clinical Topics: Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. VII / Hardcover : 2013
Seminar on Positive Health and Transcendental Theories: The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio Vol. VIII / Hardcover : 2014
The Behavior of Persons. The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. V / Paperback : 2013
A multicultural psychology / Article : 1983
All the world's a fact / Article : 1969
An expert system for planning, design, and management support for the first lunar outpost (NAS 9-18687) / Article : 1992
An overview of Descriptive Psychology / Article : 1985
Appraisal / Article : 1990
Automated classification of resolved galaxies / Article : 1989
Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia / Article : 1997
Dissemination research (RADC-TR-65-314) / Article : 1965
Experience for robots? / Article : 1992
In a world of persons and their ways / Article : 2006
More three minute lectures on emotion / Article : 1997
Naive baseball theory / Article : 1991
Out of nowhere / Article : 2006
Pathology / Article : 1997
Projective techniques / Article : 1997
Robotic systems and automation for space application (NAS 9-18677) / Article : 1992
Status management: A theory of punishment and rehabilitation / Article : 1997
The shaping of things to come / Article : 1968
Three minute lectures on emotion / Article : 1997
What there is, how things are / Article : 1997
Where the action is / Article : 1973
Personality and Personality Theories - Lectures by Peter G. Ossorio, Ph.D. / Presentation : 1974
Rap Session with Peter G. Ossorio, 1996 / Presentation : 1996
Rap Session with Peter G. Ossorio, 1997 / Presentation : 1997
Rap Session with Peter G. Ossorio, 1998 / Presentation : 1998
Rap Session with Peter G. Ossorio, 1999 / Presentation : 1999
Rap Session with Peter G. Ossorio, 2000 / Presentation : 2000
Rap Session with Peter G. Ossorio, 2001 / Presentation : 2001
"What Actually Happens": The representation of real world phenomena in behavioral science. The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. IV (LRI Report No. 10a) / LRI_Report : 1972
A multicultural psychology
(LRI Report No. 29) / LRI_Report : 1983
Appraisal (LRI Report No. 37) / LRI_Report : 1990
Attribute space development and evaluation (LRI Report No. 2) / LRI_Report : 1967
Behavior pattern indexing
(LRI Report No. 33) / LRI_Report : 1980
Classification space: A multivariate procedure for automatic document indexing and retrieval (LRI Report No. 1) / LRI_Report : 1964
Clinical topics: A seminar in Descriptive Psychology (LRI Report No. 11) / LRI_Report : 1976
Cognition (LRI Report No. 32) / LRI_Report : 1982
Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia
(LRI Report No 39a) / LRI_Report : 1987
Companions of uncertain status (LRI Report No. 48) / LRI_Report : 1988
Conceptual-notational devices: The PCF and related types (LRI Report No. 22) / LRI_Report : 1981
Decisions and decision aids (LRI Report No. 31) / LRI_Report : 1982
Embodiment (LRI Report No. 23) / LRI_Report : 1982
Essays in Descriptive Psychology (LRI Report No. 8) / LRI_Report : 1967
Evaluating information systems (LRI Report No. 27) / LRI_Report : 1981
Ex post facto: The source of intractable origin problems and their solution (LRI Report No. 28a) / LRI_Report : 1981
Explanation, falsifiability, and rule-following behavior (LRI Report No. 4c) / LRI_Report : 1968
Formalization of real world representation (LRI Report No. 22) / LRI_Report : 1979
Galaxies at 8:30 (LRI Report No. 42a) / LRI_Report : 1988
Knowlege base for C31 (Unclassified) (No LRI Report No. assigned) / LRI_Report : 1987
Knowlege base for C31, Volume II (LRI Report No. 40a) / LRI_Report : 1987
Large scale systems: A task analysis, assessment, curriculum, training, evaluation, and feedback package (LRI Report No. 24a) / LRI_Report : 1979
Meaning and Symbolism. The collected works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. VI (LRI Report No. 15) / LRI_Report : 1972
Mental health related needs among the indochinese refugees in the Denver metropolitan area (LRI Report No. 21) / LRI_Report : 1979
More three minute lectures on emotion
(LRI Report No. 36b) / LRI_Report : 1986
Never smile at a crocodile
(LRI Report No. 17) / LRI_Report : 1973
Notes on behavior description
(LRI Report No. 4b) / LRI_Report : 1981
Outline of "Behavior Description"
(LRI Report 4a) / LRI_Report : 1967
Outline of Descriptive Psychology for personality theory and clinical applications (LRI Report No. 4d) / LRI_Report : 1970
Pathology (LRI Report No. 34a) / LRI_Report : 1983
Personality and Personality Theories (LRI Report No. 16) / LRI_Report : 1977
Persons (LRI Report No. 3) / LRI_Report : 1964
Place (LRI Report 30a) / LRI_Report : 1982
Positive health and transcendental theories: A seminar in Descriptive Psychology (LRI Report No. 13) / LRI_Report : 1977
Projective techniques (LRI Report 38a) / LRI_Report : 1966
Psychotherapy: A means-ends study (LRI Report No. 5) / LRI_Report : 1970
Putting concepts in the conceptual schema (LRI Report No. 41) / LRI_Report : 1985
Religion without doctrine
(LRI Report No. 19) / LRI_Report : 1978
Representaton, evaluation, and research (LRI Report No. 22a) / LRI_Report : 1979
Research, evaluation, and representation (LRI Report No. 18) / LRI_Report : 1978
Rule following in grammar and behavior (LRI Report No. 7) / LRI_Report : 1967
State of affairs systems: Theory and technique for automatic fact analysis (LRI Report No. 14) / LRI_Report : 1978
Status maxims (LRI Report No. 30b) / LRI_Report : 1982
Status management: A theory of punishment and rehabilitation (LRI Report No. 25) / LRI_Report : 1981
Technology transfer and culture change (LRI Report No. 44) / LRI_Report : 1990
The dropped out: Redescribing chronic mental illness as a question about communities (LRI Report No. 43) / LRI_Report : 1990
Three minute lectures on emotion
(LRI Report No. 36a) / LRI_Report : 1986
What there is, how things are
(LRI Report No. 49a) / LRI_Report : 1998
Why Descriptive Psychology
(LRI Report No. 35) / LRI_Report : 1983
By Members of SDP
Gender as one’s eligibility to engage in social practices: Unpacking the relationship between masculinity and intimate partner violence / Article : 2013
Mental health related needs among the indochinese refugees in the Denver metropolitan area (LRI Report No. 21) / LRI_Report : 1979
Oriental martial arts rehabilitation / Article : 2010
Refugees: Cultural displacement and its effects / Book : 1983
Stress, mental health and need satisfaction among Indochinese in Colorado / Dissertation : 1980
A Descriptive Psychology account of patient-centered medicine and the chronic pain patient / Dissertation : 2015
Psychological education to enhance self-understanding and self-acceptance in college students. / Dissertation : 1977
Therapeutic social practices / Article : 1982
The use of case study to train cross-cultural competence / Dissertation : 2010
Presidential Address:
Descriptive Psychology in Everyday Life
Finding Your Way Out of Depression: A Pre-Conference Descriptive Psychology Tutorial / Presentation : 2013
Cinderella’s Slipper:
Exploring the Concept of “Fit” in
Couple Relationships
Navigating the Last Chapters of Life
The use of the status concept in developing effective relationships between police chiefs and officers / Article : 1990
Therapeutic Images: A Panel Discussion / Presentation : 2019
“All the World’s a Stage:” A Person-Centered View of Science / Presentation : 2011
Click here for more information about Dr. Bergner… / Webpage : 2017
Sexual Significance
Why Self-Concepts Are So Resistant to Change: Analysis and Clinical Implications
A conceptual framework for eclectic psychotherapy / Article : 1992
A therapeutic approach to destructive self-criticism / Article : 1998
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 10 / Book : 2013
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 3 / Book : 1983
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 7 / Hardcover : 1998
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 8 / Hardcover : 2006
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 9 / Hardcover : 2010
All the world’s a stage: A person-centered view of science / Article : 2013
An integrative framework for psychopathology and psychotherapy / Article : 2004
Antisocial Personality Disorder from a DP Perspective / Presentation : 2010
Beyond empirical validation: justifying therapeutic judgment and action / Article : 2006
Can psychological science be replaced by biological science? / Article : 2006
Characteristics of an optimal clinical case formulation / Article : 1998
Characteristics of romantic love: An empirically-based essentialist account / Article : 2013
Coaching and motivation / Article : 1998
Coaching and teaching / Article : 1998
Couple therapy for histrionic clients and their spouses / Article : 1982
Emotions Revisited: How the Descriptive Formulation Generates Expanded Therapeutic Options / Presentation : 2020
Emotions: A conceptual formulation and its clinical implications / Article : 1993
Father-daughter incest: Degradation and recovery from degradation / Article : 1990
Humiliation: Its nature and consequences / Article : 2010
Hysterical action, impersonation, and caretaking roles / Article : 1982
Impulsive action and impulsive persons: A descriptive and pragmatic formulation / Article : 1990
Introduction
(to Part II. Conceptual Foundations) / Article : 1992
Introduction
(to Part III. Clinical Topics) / Article : 1992
Is It All Really Biological? / Article : 2004
Leadership in athletic coaching / Article : 1998
Love and barriers to love: An analysis for psychotherapists and others / Article : 2000
Lovemaking as a ceremony of accreditation / Article : 2005
Marital conflict resolution: A conceptual framework and its empirical evaluation / Article : 1981
Mental disorder disability: In support of our design / Article : 2017
Mental disorder is a disability concept, not a behavioral one. An empirical investigation / Article : 2017
Money’s ‘Lovemap’ account of the paraphilias: A critique and reformulation / Article : 1988
On promoting adaptive self-criticism in psychotherapy / Article : 2007
Paranoid style: A descriptive and pragmatic account / Article : 1985
Pathological Self-Criticism : Assessment and Treatment (The Plenum Series in Social-Clinical Psychology) / Hardcover : 1995
Pornography, effects on relationships / Article : 2009
Proposal for an eclectic framework / Article : 1991
Psychopathology and psychotherapy from a Descriptive Psychological point of view / Paperback : 1993
Psychotherapy the Descriptive Psychology Way: A Pre-conference Tutorial / Presentation : 2013
Recasting victims as perpetrators / Article : 1981
Relational qualities as factors in mate selection decisions / Article : 1992
Romantic partner’s use of pornography: Its significance for women / Article : 2003
Self-concepts and self-concept change: A status dynamic formulation / Article : 2000
Self-criticism / Article : 1998
Severe public humiliation: Its nature, consequences, and clinical treatment / Article : 2012
Sexual compulsion as attempted recovery from degradation. / Article : 2002
Sexual misunderstanding: A descriptive and pragmatic formulation / Article : 1990
Some implications of belief in love, free will, and non-reductionism / Article : 2013
Status dynamic psychotherapy / Article : 2015
Status dynamic psychotherapy with depressed individuals / Article : 1988
Status Dynamic Therapy / Presentation : 2021
Status dynamic treatment of a case of bulimia / Article : 2005
Status dynamics: An enriching path to therapeutic change / Hardcover : 2007
Status enhancement: An enriching path to therapeutic change / Article : 1999
Studies in psychopathology: The Descriptive Psychology approach / Paperback : 1993
Suicide and impossible worlds / Article : 2013
Sustaining versus losing love: Factors discriminating the two / Article : 2016
The case against the case of free will / Article : 2018
The development and evaluation of a training videotape for the resolution of marital conflict. / Dissertation : 1973
The many secure knowledge bases of psychotherapy / Article : 2006
The marital system of the hysterical individual / Article : 1977
The overseer regime: A descriptive and practical study of the obsessive compulsive personality style / Article : 1981
The parentification scale / Article : 2001
The Personal Beliefs Scale / Article : 2014
The positive therapeutic relationship as accreditation / Article : 1987
The positive therapeutic relationship: An accreditation perspective / Article : 1992
The significance of heavy pornography involvement for romantic partners: Research and clinical implications / Article : 2002
The Tolstoy dilemma: A paradigm case formulation and some therapeutic interventions / Article : 20101
The use of a recent formulation of bulimia nervosa in the successful treatment of a bulimic woman / Article : 1997
The use of systems oriented illustrative stories in marital psychotherapy / Article : 1979
Therapeutic approaches to problems of meaninglessness / Presentation : 2023
Therapeutic policies: A policy-based approach to psychotherapy / Article : 2013
Therapeutic storytelling revisited / Article : 2007
Transforming presenting problems / Article : 1979
Trauma, Exposure, and World Reconstruction / Presentation : 2009
Trauma, exposure, and world reconstruction / Article : 2009
Underlying cognitive processes or private social practices? / Article : 2006
Undoing degradation / Article : 1987
Victims into perpetrators / Article : 1993
What is “behavior?” And why is it not reducible to biological states of affairs? / Article : 2016
What is a person? What is the self? Formulations for a science of psychology / Article : 2017
What is behavior? And so what? / Article : 2011
What is descriptive psychology? An introduction / Article : 2010
What is love? An empirically-based essentialist account / Article : 2010
What is Personality? Three Myths and a Definition / Presentation : 2018
What is psychopathology? And so what? / Article : 1997
What keeps love alive? An empirical investigation / Article : 2003
Why do men distance? Factors predictive of male avoidance of intimate conflict / Article : 2003
World reconstruction in psychotherapy / Article : 2005
Relational qualities as factors in mate selection decisions / Article : 1992
A computer implementation of the reason formulation applied to person perception. / Dissertation : 1979
What Does It Mean To Be Mistaken
About Behavior Potential
Descriptive metaphysics: On science, religion, and wisdom / Article : 2006
Getting in on (the) ACT
from a DP Perspective
Finding Your Way Out of Depression: A Pre-Conference Descriptive Psychology Tutorial / Presentation : 2013
Status dynamics of sexual relationships. / Dissertation : 1988
Click here for more information about Dr. Davis… / Webpage : 2017
A Paradigm Case Formulation of Parkinson’s Disease / Presentation : 2018
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 4 / Book : 1985
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 1 / Book : 1981
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 2 / Book : 1982
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 3 / Book : 1983
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 5 / Hardcover : 1990
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 8 / Hardcover : 2006
Brains don’t think and organisms don’t create cultures or develop spontaneous languages / Article : 2008
Characteristics of romantic love: An empirically-based essentialist account / Article : 2013
Friendship and love relationships / Article : 1982
Relationships in the real world: The Descriptive Psychology approach to personal relationships / Article : 1999
Stalkers and their worlds / Article : 2006
Policies for pragmatic psychotherapy / Article : 1981
Pragmatic psychotherapy / Book : 1984
Self-criticism: Analysis and treatment / Article : 1981
Castaneda’s Don Juan as psychotherapist / Article : 1981
Kids interest discovery kits / Article : 1998
Interpersonal understanding as an aspect of interpersonal interaction. / Dissertation : 1977
Status dynamics, through lines and the dramaturgical pattern of the recovering addict / Dissertation : 2011
Playing the person game in healthcare / Article : 2006
Depression doesn’t always have to be depressing / Paperback : 2013
Differences between clients and non-clients and a comparison of two vocational counseling procedures. / Dissertation : 1975
Finding Your Way Out of Depression: A Pre-Conference Descriptive Psychology Tutorial / Presentation : 2013
Self-concepts and self-concept change: A status dynamic formulation / Article : 2000
The status of persons or who was that metaphor / Article : 1992
Appraisal and competence in moral judgment and behavior / Article : 1990
Depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation among Asian-American students. / Dissertation : 1989
Click here for more related work by Dr. Jeffrey… / Webpage : 2016
Making “What Actually Happens” Accessible
Making Buddhism Accessible to Westerners
A new paradigm for artificial intelligence / Article : 1981
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 7 / Hardcover : 1998
Cognition without processes / Article : 1998
Consciousness, experience, and a person’s world / Article : 1998
Descriptive Psychology Tutorial / Presentation : 2010
Formalization of real world representation (LRI Report No. 22) / LRI_Report : 1979
Getting Old and Getting Old: Accidental Degradation and How to Avoid it / Presentation : 2018
Having Black-White Conversations
Go Right / Presentation : 2020
Homo Communitatis: A rigorous foundation for behavioral finance / Article : 2010
Knowledge engineering: Theory and practice / Article : 1990
Practical Use of Descriptive Psychology: Applying Psychotherapy Concepts to Other Contexts / Presentation : 2009
Presidential Address: Dispelling the Illusion of Irrationality: Re-doing Economics from the Ground Up / Presentation : 2014
Structure / Article : 2010
Subjective Probability in Behavioral Economics and Finance: A Radical Reformulation / Article : 2015
The Irrationality illusion: A new paradigm for economics and behavioral economics / Article : 2013
The Mentor Project: Replicating the functions of an organization / Article : 1983
The Mentor Project: Replicating the functions of an organization. / Dissertation : 1980
There is something new in the world of social science conceptualizations: A review of Place / Article : 2013
Uncertainty Appraisals: A Radical Reformulation of Subjective Probability / Presentation : 2013
Worlds, Observers, and Physics / Presentation : 2016
A City of Two Tales:
How Complex Communities Achieve
Resilience in the Face of
Overwhelming Threat
The Alien and the Earthling:
Status Dynamic Role Play Therapy with Children
Children’s imaginative play: A descriptive psychology approach / Article : 2010
Discipline, negotiation and the schizogenic family: A study of normal and schizogenic socialization. / Dissertation : 1977
Enemies of the People: Whistleblowers and the Status Dynamics of Community Critics / Presentation : 2020
Presidential Address: Creating Monsters: The Power of Descriptive Psychology Concepts in Understanding Genocide. / Presentation : 2013
The Social Practice of Satire:
Power, Place, and Politics / Presentation : 2015
The Wretched Nurseries of Unceasing Discord: Tribalism, political conflict, and person communities. / Presentation : 2018
We’re off to see the wizard: Politics, charisma, and community change / Article : 2013
We’re Off to See the Wizard: Politics, Charisma, and Community Change / Presentation : 2011
A parametric analysis of socioeconomic status: How SES relates to mental health. / Dissertation : 2018
Attempted suicide and restrictions in the eligibility to negotiate personal characteristics / Article : 1982
Suicidal states and restrictions in the eligibility to negotiate personal characteristics. / Dissertation : 1978
A pre-normative and predictive study of the college student Rorschach. / Dissertation : 1968
A Descriptive Psychology
Perspective on Careers
Mental health related needs among the indochinese refugees in the Denver metropolitan area (LRI Report No. 21) / LRI_Report : 1979
Recovery from Compulsive Behavior: How to Transcend Your Troubled Family / Paperback
Stress and health in a Colorado coal mining community / Article : 1983
Stress and health in a Colorado coal mining community. / Dissertation : 1979
A high power – low power account of gender differences in self-criticism / Article : 1990
A high power-low power account of self- criticism / Dissertation : 1983
Significance in schizophrenic thought disorder. / Dissertation : 1987
A new formulation of humor / Article : 1983
A theory of humor. / Dissertation : 1979
Elucidating Actus Reus and Mens Rea: A Descriptive Psychology perspective / Article : 2010
Guilty or not? A Descriptive Psychology analysis / Article : 2010
The Social Practice of Satire:
Power, Place, and Politics / Presentation : 2015
Developing Your Cultural
Competence as a Therapist:
A Descriptive Psychology Approach
Teaching culturally competent psychotherapy: A Descriptive Psychology approach / Article : 2010
The acculturation of culturally displaced persons / Article : 1998
The acculturation of culturally displaced persons: The case of Pilipino-Americans. / Dissertation : 1993
A bulimic life pattern / Article : 1992
Scenarios of “alcoholic” relationships / Article : 1985
The significance of criminal and noncriminal behavior. / Dissertation : 1980
Smoking addiction: A Descriptive Psychology conceptualization and test. / Dissertation : 1989
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 4 / Book : 1985
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 2 / Book : 1982
On the interpretation of utterances / Article : 1981
The Time is (Probably) Ripe for Change: Moving Descriptive Psychology into the Mainstream
What Does It Mean To Be Mistaken
About Behavior Potential
Refinement of a Paradigm Case Formulation of a Daydream: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Considerations / Presentation : 2018
A conceptual model for migration in Alaska / Article : 1985
Technology transfer and culture change / Article : 1990
Technology transfer and culture change (LRI Report No. 44) / LRI_Report : 1990
The Dropped Out: Redescribing chronic mental illness as a question about communities / Article : 1992
The dropped out: Redescribing chronic mental illness as a question about communities (LRI Report No. 43) / LRI_Report : 1990
Click here for more information about Dr. Peek… / Webpage : 2017
Shared Language for Shared Work
Faith and skepticism in biofeedback learning. / Dissertation : 1976
Playing the person game in healthcare / Article : 2006
What’s in a name? / Presentation : 2013
A conceptualization of hypnosis: I. Exploring the place of appraisal and anomaly in behavior and experience / Article : 1982
A conceptualization of hypnosis: II. Hypnotic induction procedures and manifestations of the hypnotic state / Article : 1985
Consciousness / Article : 1981
Significance appreciation and authentic love and friendship. / Dissertation : 1988
Evaluating information systems (LRI Report No. 27) / LRI_Report : 1981
Large scale systems: A task analysis, assessment, curriculum, training, evaluation, and feedback package (LRI Report No. 24a) / LRI_Report : 1979
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 5 / Hardcover : 1990
Artificial persons / Article : 1990
At A Glance And Out of Nowhere: Actor’s Knowledge and the Ongoing Creation of Meaning in the Real World / Presentation : 2009
At a glance and out of nowhere: How ordinary people create the real world / Article : 2013
Being, Becoming and Belonging / Presentation : 1998
Being, becoming and belonging / Article : 1998
Communities / Article : 1981
Effects of marathon encounter groups on self-reported behavior in interpersonal contexts. / Dissertation : 1973
Essays in Descriptive Psychology (LRI Report No. 8) / LRI_Report : 1967
Leading: Perspectives for leaders and leadership coaches / Article : 2013
Marketing Your Services : A Step-By-Step Guide for Small Businesses and Professionals / Hardcover : 1990
Notes on Community Description / Presentation : 2014
Ordinary Magic, Part 3: Consciousness, Community and Worlds / Presentation : 2010
Ordinary magic: What Descriptive Psychology is, and why it matters / Article : 2010
Organizations / Article : 1990
Subjective Probability in Behavioral Economics and Finance: A Radical Reformulation / Article : 2015
The Irrationality illusion: A new paradigm for economics and behavioral economics / Article : 2013
The Mentor Project: Replicating the functions of an organization / Article : 1983
What is Descriptive Psychology:
A First Hand Historical and Substantive Account / Presentation : 2015
When Worlds Collide: Origins of Intractable Value Problems / Presentation : 2012
When worlds collide: The source of intractable value problems / Article : 2013
Ethnicity and the utilization of mental health services: Stoicism versus hypochondria. / Dissertation : 1990
An accomplice’s tale / Article : 2010
An indeterminate and expansive world / Article : 2010
Ancient companions / Article : 2006
Companions of uncertain status / Article : 1992
Companions of uncertain status (LRI Report No. 48) / LRI_Report : 1988
I and Thou: A study of personal relationships / Article : 1985
Introduction
(to Part II. Conceptual Foundations) / Article : 1992
Introduction
(to Part III. Clinical Topics) / Article : 1992
Knowing the world / Article : 2013
Kurosawa’s relativity / Article : 1998
Men and women: Partners, lovers, friends / Article : 1982
On the outside looking In: A conceptualization of adolescence / Article : 1992
Partners, lovers, friends: A status dynamic study of men and women. / Dissertation : 1980
Psychotherapy with adolescents and their families: A status dynamic approach / Article : 1992
Relationships in the real world: The Descriptive Psychology approach to personal relationships / Article : 1999
The Nefarious “is” / Article : 2013
Worlds and world reconstruction / Article : 1985
Worlds of uncertain status / Article : 2010
Violent males’ views of spousal assault: Preliminary evidence supporting four paradigm cases of spousal assault (males). / Dissertation : 1990
Chicano identification and its correlates. / Dissertation : 1992
A factor analytic study of stimulus values of the Thematic Apperception Test. / Dissertation : 1965
Decisions and decision aids (LRI Report No. 31) / LRI_Report : 1982
Knowlege base for C31 (Unclassified) (No LRI Report No. assigned) / LRI_Report : 1987
Putting concepts in the conceptual schema (LRI Report No. 41) / LRI_Report : 1985
Click here for more information about Dr. Schwartz… / Webpage : 2017
Descriptive Psychology as
Therapy for Therapies
Preparation for Descriptive Psychology:
Conversations with Ossorio on Reading Wittgenstein
A conceptualization of hypnosis: I. Exploring the place of appraisal and anomaly in behavior and experience / Article : 1982
A conceptualization of hypnosis: II. Hypnotic induction procedures and manifestations of the hypnotic state / Article : 1985
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 10 / Book : 2013
Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 9 / Hardcover : 2010
Degradation, accreditation, and rites of passage / Article : 1979
Essentials of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice / Webpage : 2017
From Passivity to Competence – A Conceptualization of Knowledge, Skill, Tolerance, and Empathy / Article : 2002
On saying “no”: Evidence based practice and the hijacking of the empirical / Article : 2010
Presentations of Self and the Status Dynamics of Psychotherapy and Supervision / Article : 2008
Presidential Address:
Social Progress and the Just Choice / Presentation : 2015
Status Dynamics and Psychotherapy / Presentation
Teaching Descriptive Psychology During the Time of COVID: What Concepts Proved Serviceable? / Presentation : 2021
The parameters of empathy: Core considerations for psychotherapy and supervision / Article : 2013
The problem of other possible persons: Dolphins, primates, and aliens / Article : 1982
The two concepts of action and responsibility in psychoanalysis / Article : 1984
Time and context in the hypnotic state: An examination of some state specific effects. / Dissertation : 1977
What is a person and how can we be sure? A Paradigm Case Formulation / Book : 2014
What makes something psychoanalytic? / Article : 1988
Persons, Behavior, and the World: The Descriptive Psychology Approach / Book : 1988
Science, religion, and religions / Article : 1985
Spirituality: The Descriptive Psychology approach / Article : 1990
The creator and the discoverer / Article : 1982
The Founding of the Society for Descriptive Psychology / Article : 1992
The lover and the logician / Article : 1981
The priest and the psychotherapist / Article : 1983
Running across the U.S.: Using DP concepts to understand extraordinary behavior / Presentation : 2011
Running across the US: Using DP Concepts to Understand Extraordinary Behavior / Presentation : 2011
What actually happened to Jose: A Descriptive Psychology approach to cultural values implementation for a culturally displaced person. / Dissertation : 1980
What actually happens to Jose: Chicano freshmen in a predominantly Anglo university / Article : 1983
Contributions of Descriptive Psychology to strategies of negotiation: The case of religion and government / Article : 2010
The positive therapeutic relationship: An accreditation perspective / Article : 1992
Status management: A theory of punishment and rehabilitation (LRI Report No. 25) / LRI_Report : 1981
A Relationship View of the Person Definition
One Bite at a Time: A Glossary of Descriptive Psychology Concepts / Presentation : 2012
One bite at a time: A glossary of Descriptive Psychology concepts / Webpage : 2012
A Descriptive Take on Mindfulness
A comparison of Puerto Rican and Anglo concepts of appropriate mental health service utilization. / Dissertation : 1980
Humiliation: Its nature and consequences / Article : 2010
Lessons from Pete – Remastered / Presentation : 2019
Psychological Health Implications of the Coronavirus Pandemic As a State of Siege / Presentation : 2020
Puerto Rican and Anglo conceptions of appropriate mental health services / Article : 1983
Severe public humiliation: Its nature, consequences, and clinical treatment / Article : 2012
What’s Going on between Clarence Thomas and Humiliation?
An Analysis of Opinions, Actions, and Personal History, with the Assistance of the Four Ingredient Model of Humiliation / Presentation : 2023
The positive-health developmental model / Article : 1983
The positive-health developmental model of treatment and psychopathology / Article : 1985
Personality and manic states: A status dynamic formulation of bipolar disorder / Article : 1992
The relationship between personality and manic states: A status dynamic formulation. / Dissertation : 1983
Trauma concepts: A descriptive psychological formulation of the nature of trauma and its consequences / Article : 2013
Understanding and Applying the Concept of Psychological Trauma / Presentation : 2021
Cheetahs on the couch: Issues affecting the therapeutic working alliance with clients who are cognitively gifted / Dissertation : 2010
Click here for more information about Dr. Zeiger… / Webpage : 2017
A psychological approach to the improvement of myopia. / Dissertation : 1976
Doing it all isn’t everything: A woman’s guide to harmony and empowerment / Book : 1992
The Miss Marple Model of Psychological Assessment / Article : 1991
Where does my freedom lie? / Article : 2006
Contributions of Descriptive Psychology to strategies of negotiation: The case of religion and government / Article : 2010
Explaining Explanations / Presentation : 2010
Human systems issues in software engineering / Article : 1990
Theologies / Presentation : 2011
Toward a rapprochement of religion and science / Article : 2006
Where does my freedom lie? / Article : 2006
The ‘Persona’ Concept:
A Descriptive Take on Social Learning Theory and Role Development in the Behavior of Persons
Informal Status Assignments / Presentation : 2018
Presidential Address: Traversing Surreal Worlds: Using Descriptive Psychology in the clinical treatment of persons with psychotic and delusional thought disorders. / Presentation : 2018
The Status Dynamics of Anger Management / Dissertation : 2016
General Publications
Having Black-White Conversations
Go Right / Presentation : 2020
Kahler v. Kansas: Why SCOTUS Needs Descriptive Psychology / Presentation : 2020
Looking for Superman in Dangerous Worlds: Descriptive Psychology Explains Conspiracy Communities / Presentation : 2021
My Dissertation Journey with Peter Ossorio: A Personal and Conceptual Story / Presentation : 2020
Presidential Address:
Applying Descriptive Psychology to the Treatment of Psychological Trauma
Presidential Address
SES and Place: Examining the Impacts of Financial Position on a Person's Place in the World / Presentation : 2020
Special Moments with Clients / Presentation : 2020