Hunter B. Shirley

Dr. Hunter Shirley is a longtime licensed clinical psychologist and a former Associate Professor at Wisconsin State University where he headed a psychological research laboratory devoted to evaluating the world’s first analog model of the mind. Currently serving as a Director of the International Division of the American Institute of Applied Behavior Analysis in St. Louis, was director of the Counseling and Testing Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and later served as the Chief Clinical Psychologist of the Lafayette Institute of Behavior Therapy and Crisis Management. Author of a number of books, including the trail-blazing book, MAPPING THE MIND, and the popular self-help book, Your Mind May Be Programmed Against You! he is credited with having developed the most sophisticated model of the human mind currently in existence. With offices in Staré Splavy near Prague, Dr. Shirley is currently in charge of a “Think tank” performing behavioral science research for NGO’s and government agencies.

Works

 * (1972) Psychovector analysis: A new discipline within the behavioral sciences. Journal of Psychology, 80, 135 – 145.
 * (1976) Emotion as a Three-Valued Variable. Psychological Reports
 * (1977) Toward an Operable Simulation Model of Personality. Journal of Psychology
 * (1981) Your Mind May Be Programmed Against You
 * (1983) Mapping The Mind ISBN 0911012192
 * (1996) An Introduction to Psychofeedback Training: Paper presented to the Slovenian National Academy of the Arts and Science
 * (2000) The Uses of Psychofeedback Training in Psychiatry. An address delivered to the Palackeho University Medical School, Olomouc, Czech Republic
 * (2003) Designing “Hard Science” Type Models of Perception, Cognition, and Memory. Theory and Science 4:2
 * (in press) The enduring charm of diagnostic typologies