Organismic theories in psychology are a family of holistic psychological theories which tend to stress the organization, unity, and integration of human beings expressed through each individual's inherent growth or developmental tendency. The idea of an explicitly "organismic theory" dates at least back to the publication of Kurt Goldstein's The organism: A holistic approach to biology derived from pathological data in man in 1934. Organismic theories and the "organic" metaphor were inspired by organicist approaches in biology. The most direct influence from inside psychology comes from Gestalt psychology. This approach is often contrasted with mechanistic and reductionist perspectives in psychology.
tendency. The idea of an explicitly "organismictheory" dates at least back to the publication of Kurt Goldstein's The organism: A holistic approach to biology...
lead to biases in perception and memory. Self-determination theory – is an organismictheory of behavior and personality development that is particularly...
or in another form, that Claude Shannon's information theory can be used to identify organisms as capable of self-maintaining their information content...
In biology, cell theory is a scientific theory first formulated in the mid-nineteenth century, that living organisms are made up of cells, that they are...
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This theory suggests that the first multicellular organisms occurred from symbiosis (cooperation) of different species of single-cell organisms, each...
organicistic/organismic but individualistic. Holistic community Hylozoism Mechanical and organic solidarity Organic unity Organismictheory Orthogenesis...
between gestalt therapy's field perspective and the various organismic and field theories that proliferated in neuroscience, medicine, and physics in...
worked out a primal organismictheory. In medicine, he exhorted the physicians of his time—with some results—to ground their theories in detailed comparative...
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Harrington dedicates a comprehensive chapter to Kurt Goldstein and his 'organismictheory'.) Stahnisch, Frank W., Hoffmann, Thomas: Kurt Goldstein and the Neurology...
: 47 Humanistic psychology Organismictheory Levitt, B. E. (2005) Embracing non-directivity: reassessing person-centered theory and practice in the 21st...
ontogenetic development of individual organisms, and his model is often referred to as the pseudo-organismictheory of community ecology. Clements and his...
Symptoms. Certain General Laws of Organismic Life. Observations on Persons with Brain Injuries 33 II The Organism Viewed in the Light of Results Obtained...
the germ theory quickly led to the identification of the actual organisms that cause many diseases. The miasma theory was the predominant theory of disease...
modified food (also referred to as genetically modified organisms or "GMOs"). These conspiracy theories include claims that agribusinesses, especially Monsanto...
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evolution, fact and theory has several meanings in different contexts. In biology, evolution refers to observed changes in organisms over successive generations...
to today's unicellular organisms. Although the origin of life is largely still a mystery, in the currently prevailing theory, known as the RNA world...
elaborated the concept of an "organismic society" in his essay on "The Social Organism". George R. MacLay, The Social Organism: A Short History of the Idea...
complete self-reproduction, chaotic systems in organisms, relational biology and organismictheories. Modeling cell and molecular biology This area has...
Life history theory (LHT) is an analytical framework designed to study the diversity of life history strategies used by different organisms throughout the...