Conflict Analysis: the Formal Theory of Behavior: a Theory and Its Experime Ntal Validation, Volume 1

Conflict Analysis, the Formal Theory of Behavior, authored by Albert Levis, MD, is a textbook introducing the Formal Theory’s conceptual position and its experimental validation through the use of the Conflict Analysis Battery, a self-assessment. It was inspired by observing a pattern repeated across five generations of the Greek Cosmogony. This periodicity triggered the identification of a six-role process emotional energetic structure of stories, accounting for the transmission of a pattern across the five generations of the Cosmogony. The Formal Theory examines the creative process as a scientific conflict resolution phenomenon reflecting the unconscious and how this entity revamps psychology. Emotions are conceived as energetic entities. The relational method introduces the scientific study of the creative process as an energy transformation structure. The unconscious transforms unpleasant conflict energy to pleasant social adjustment. This energetic transformation corresponds to attitude change. The textbook consists of a comprehensive review of conceptual issues in ten chapters, systematically addressing aspects of the formalized energized unconscious as social sciences graphically portrayable unit process, integrating psychology’s constructs as a scientific entity. Thus epistemology is about the science of the phenomenon, as formulas with graphic representation of emotions structuring the unconscious as a six-role state process leading to four alternative types of resolutions. Diagnoses are about alternative ways of resolving conflict as wellness personality types. The assessment is about the measurement of the unconscious, identifying the emotional dialectic and the person’s relational modality. The assessment validates the theory as a diagnostic and therapeutic modality. Religions evolved as sanctifications of the relational modalities. A new ethics approach is founded on scientific principles of conflict resolution. Case studies are presented showing the effectiveness of the conceptual and technical components of the Formal Theory.

Albert Levis, MD, a native of Athens, Greece has been a practicing psychiatrist for more than forty years. Trained at the Universities of Zurich and Geneva, the University of Chicago, and at Yale, Albert is the author of many books and articles, including The Formal Theory of Behavior, Conflict Analysis Training, and Science Stealing the Fire of the Gods. Before retiring to Manchester, Vermont, Albert directed the Center for the Study of Normative Behavior in Hamden, Connecticut. Albert continues to lecture throughout the region and lead the Museum of the Creative Process. Albert is married to Georgette Wasserstein Levis. The two run the Wilburton Inn, a historic estate boutique hotel in Manchester, Vermont.