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Applied PCT

I know several people who tried to use concepts from PCT when they developed new ideas about social interactions and about how to change those interactions when they become troublesome to the people involved. The two people with whose applied work I am the most familiar are  Ed Ford,  and  Dag Forssell.  Ed Ford developed the Responsible Thinking Process, which, as the titles of his books say, is a discipline program for home and school. Ford interprets the various interactions that occur in schools (and anywhere else), including disruption and discipline, as though they are interactions between people who control their own perceptions.

Dag Forssell developed a program to teach people in industry new ways to think about their collective activities when they all act to control their own perceptions. Forssell's web site is a treasure trove of material about many aspects of PCT.

Some of my own writings about applying PCT to social interactions are on Ed Ford's web site. They include a paper about  Reinforcement theory  and countercontrol, and two chapters in the part of Ford's site called,  Section on PCT.  My chapters there are  Book One, Chapter 31, and  Book Two, Chapter 7.