The Cybernetics Group

Midcentury, USA March 8-9 1946 describing "embodiments of mind" - McCulloch and his cohorts Raindancer, Scout and Talking Chief logic clarifying and logic obscuring problems of deranged minds, artists and psychiatrists the Macy Foundation and worldwide mental health Lazarsfield, Lewin and political conditions gestalten go to bits 1. - from Lewin to Bavelas gestalten go to bits 2. - Kohler's visit metaphor and synthesis then and now. Appendix: members of the cybernetics group.

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[4]  Psychological Care of Infant and Child , 1929 .

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[8]  H. Margenau.  Causality and Modern Physics , 1931 .

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[10]  L. Henderson.  Pareto's general sociology : a physiologist's interpretation , 1935 .

[11]  The Enchanted Voyage , 1936 .

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[13]  P. Lazarsfeld.  Principles of Topological Psychology , 1938 .

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[15]  A Dynamic Problem in Duopoly , 1940 .

[16]  L. Kubie.  The Repetitive Core of Neurosis , 1941 .

[17]  Kurt Lewin,et al.  Time perspective and morale. , 1942 .

[18]  N. Wiener,et al.  Behavior, Purpose and Teleology , 1943, Philosophy of Science.

[19]  W. McCulloch.  THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX , 1944 .

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[25]  K. Lewin.  Frontiers in Group Dynamics , 1947 .

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[27]  Alex Bavelas.  A Mathematical Model for Group Structures , 1948 .

[28]  S. Arieti.  Special logic of schizophrenic and other types of autistic thought. , 1948 .

[29]  W. Pitts,et al.  The statistical organization of nervous activity. , 1948, Biometrics.

[30]  I. Hirsh.  Transmission and reception of sounds under combat conditions. , 1948 .

[31]  F. Northrop.  The Neurological and Behavioristic Psychological Basis of the Ordering of Society by Means of Ideas. , 1948, Science.

[32]  R. Crutchfield,et al.  Theory and problems of social psychology , 1948 .

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[34]  N. Wiener.  TIME, COMMUNICATION, AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM , 1948, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

[35]  Psychology at the beginning of World War II; meditations on the impending dismemberment of psychology written in 1942. , 1949, The Journal of psychology.

[36]  J. Dollard.  Caste And Class In A Southern Town , 1937 .

[37]  アルベルト アインシュタイン,et al.  私の社会主義--Why Socialism? , 1950 .

[38]  N. Wiener.  The Human Use of Human Beings , 1950 .

[39]  Colin Rosser,et al.  Mirror for man , 1951 .

[40]  T. T. Paterson.  Mirror for Man: the Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life , 1952 .

[41]  H. Meltzer.  Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior. , 1953 .

[42]  Stephen Polyak. , 1955, A.M.A. archives of ophthalmology.

[43]  Power Elite or Ruling Class , 1956 .

[44]  E. Jaynes.  Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics , 1957 .

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[46]  Morton Grodzins.  The Academic Mind , 1959, Ethics.

[47]  C. H. Lushbough.  Philanthropy , 1959, Science.

[48]  W. Pitts,et al.  What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain , 1959, Proceedings of the IRE.

[49]  J. Haley.  THE FAMILY OF THE SCHIZOPHRENIC: A MODEL SYSTEM , 1959, The Journal of nervous and mental disease.

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[51]  G BATESON,et al.  Minimal requirements for a theory of schizophrenia. , 1960, A.M.A. archives of general psychiatry.

[52]  K. Minogue.  The Liberal Mind , 1963 .

[53]  Heinrich Klüver. , 1965, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association.

[54]  H. Klüver.  Neurobiology of normal and abnormal perception. , 1965, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association.

[55]  Michel Foucault,et al.  The Order of Things , 2010 .

[56]  L. Frank.  On the importance of infancy , 1966 .

[57]  Leonard J. Savage,et al.  Difficulties in the Theory of Personal Probability , 1967, Philosophy of Science.

[58]  J. M. Stroud.  THE FINE STRUCTURE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME , 1967 .

[59]  Margaret Mead,et al.  The Small Conference: An Innovation in Communication , 1968 .

[60]  W. Köhler.  The task of Gestalt psychology , 1969 .

[61]  P. Lazarsfeld.  AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH: A MEMOIR , 1969 .

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[63]  D. Fleming.  ÉMIGRÉ PHYSICISTS AND THE BIOLOGICAL REVOLUTION , 1969 .

[64]  J. Haley.  The art of being a failure as a therapist. , 1969, The American journal of orthopsychiatry.

[65]  The Fremont-Smith effect: an historical note. , 1970, The Journal of asthma research.

[66]  L. J. Henderson on the Social System. , 1970 .

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[69]  G. Bateson.  The cybernetics of "self": a theory of alcoholism. , 1971, Psychiatry.

[70]  A. L. Crosby.  The Press and the Cold War , 1971 .

[71]  M. Mead.  Review: Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization , 1962 .

[72]  Paul Forman,et al.  Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment , 1971 .

[73]  Erwin H. Ackerknecht,et al.  Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century. Cerebral Localization and its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier , 1971, Medical History.

[74]  D. Rothman,et al.  The Discovery of the Asylum. , 1972 .

[75]  Review of Steps to an ecology of mind: Collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology and Our own metaphor: A personal account of a conference on the effects of conscious purpose on human adaptation. , 1973 .

[76]  H. Foerster.  The Cybernetics of Cybernetics , 1974 .

[77]  M. Reid.  No Ivory Tower , 1974 .

[78]  L. Kubie.  The Drive to Become Both Sexes , 2011, The Psychoanalytic quarterly.

[79]  R. Schultes,et al.  The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens , 1974 .

[80]  S Heims.  Encounter of behavioral sciences with new machine-organism analogies in the 1940's. , 1975, Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences.

[81]  H. Borko,et al.  Computer power and human reason: From judgement to calculation , 1976 .

[82]  Miriam Lewin.  Kurt Lewin's View of Social Psychology: The Crisis of 1977 and the Crisis of 1927 , 1977 .

[83]  L. Winner.  Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought , 1977 .

[84]  Has "field theory" been "tried and found wanting"? , 1978, Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences.

[85]  W. Wallace.  The Philosophical Setting of Medieval Science , 1978 .

[86]  Kurt Lewin in retrospect--a psychiatrist's view. , 1978, Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences.

[87]  Christopher Lawrence,et al.  Medicine and the reign of technology , 1979, Medical History.

[88]  Robert K. Merton,et al.  The Sociology of Science: An Episodic Memoir , 1979 .

[89]  David E. Comings,et al.  The eighth day of creation. , 1980 .

[90]  A. Newell.  Duncker on thinking : an inquiry into progress in cognition , 1980 .

[91]  Clive H. Elphick,et al.  Brain of the Firm , 1981 .

[92]  D. Yankelovich,et al.  New Rules: Searching for Self-fulfillment in a World Turned Upside Down , 1981 .

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[94]  D. Satin.  Erich Lindemann: the humanist and the era of community mental health. , 1982, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.

[95]  Marty Jezer.  The dark ages, life in the United States, 1945-1960 , 1982 .

[96]  Jean-Pierre Dupuy,et al.  L'auto-organisation : de la physique au politique , 1983 .

[97]  A. Theoharis,et al.  Beyond the Hiss case : the FBI, Congress, and the Cold War , 1983 .

[98]  A. Scull.  Managing the Mind: A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth Century Britain (Book). , 1984 .

[99]  M. Sokal.  The Gestalt psychologists in behaviorist America. , 1984, The American historical review.

[100]  S. Schlossman.  Perils of Popularization: The Founding of PARENTS' MAGAZINE. , 1985 .

[101]  J. Morawski.  Organizing Knowledge and Behavior at Yale's Institute of Human Relations , 1986, Isis.

[102]  P. Taylor,et al.  Technocratic optimism, H. T. Odum, and the partial transformation of ecological metaphor after World War II , 1988, Journal of the history of biology.

[103]  Peter Cariani,et al.  On the design of devices with emergent semantic functions , 1989 .

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[105]  W S McCulloch,et al.  A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity , 1990, The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence.

[106]  J. Herbst.  No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities , 1990 .

[107]  Science, practice, and gender roles in early American child psychology. , 1991 .

[108]  Conclusions from a century of research on sense perception. , 1992 .