Brief Summary of Albert O Hirschman's Book with 2026 update

WIP based on MacCrae2011 Compare with MBTI types Insight

Based on Psychological Medicine Dec 2015 article Depression as a systemic syndrome: mapping the feedback loops of major depressive disorder by A. K. Wittenborn, H. Rahmandad, J. Rick and N. Hosseinichimeh, mentioned here. See also 2018 N. Hosseinichimeh Plos ONE article for rumination focussed SD simulation

Double loop learning simulation using a hierarchy of an action and intent system based on Perceptual Control Theory. The action system described in a Control Theory insight now has an added intent system which changes the internal reference signal for the action system. See also Individual Learning causal loop insight story and Double loop learning causal loop insight story

Detail from Incorporating organizational factors into Probabilistic Risk Assessment(PRA) of complex socio-technical systems: A hybrid technique formalization article. See full overview at  insight 

WIP based on 2016 article The Dynamics of Addiction: Craving versus Self-Control. See also insight with additional nicotine addiction dynamics IM added

Addition of two extra articles on specific nicotine  dependence (addiction and habituation) with conceptual maps to initial version

WIP ​Based on TAble 1 Jackson 2014 article

Simulation based on Control Theory: A model of Organisms System Dynamics Review article. Control systems act to make their own input match internal standards or reference signals.  See also a double loop learning simulation insight

Revised unfolding story of stock-flow feedback map of suicide prevention intermediate version focussed on regional mental health services ( according to Mark heffernan's ithink /STELLA simulation model Aug 2017  Note private WIP version of this is at IM-77395 (private)

Grid-Group Culture applied to Public Management based on Christopher Hood's 1998 book. plus excerpts from Schwartz and Thompson's 1990 Book Divided we stand. See also Managing Mess IM-11581 and FourCultures Blog and Wikipedia Cultural Theory of Risk

Based on Psychological Medicine Dec 2015 article Depression as a systemic syndrome: mapping the feedback loops of major depressive disorder by A. K. Wittenborn, H. Rahmandad, J. Rick and N. Hosseinichimeh, mentioned here

Mental Health Platform Post-Covid June 2021 including revisiting Wiser Health Decisions

Showing how positive and negative cycles of action can be represented as a single causal loop diagram (CLD)

WIP representation of thinking feeling acting and interacting

Organization science 2014 article by anderson and lewis which won the 2018 ​Forrester award from the system dynamics society. Can add simulation experiments in separate insight using article and supplement

Unfolding story based on Emery Roe's 2013 book Making the Most of Mess, revised in 2026. See also Dynamics in Action IM-3239 for more on behavior and The Art of the State IM-11962 for more on Grid-Group Cultural Theory

Revisesuicide_prevention intermediate version  according to Mark heffernan's ithink  model Aug 2017 focussed on regional mental health services Note private WIP version of this is at IM-77395 (private)

Showing how positive and negative cycles of action can be represented as a single causal loop diagram (CLD)

From Brown and Heathcote's 2008 Paper on the simplest model of Choice ResponseTime , a Tutorial paper and a Workload capacity paper that estimates drift rate v for individuals with single and multiple targets

From Jennifer Prah Ruger (2010) Health Capability Conceptualization and Operationalization Am J Public Health 100 p41-49 available from SSRN. Extends Insight 779 with Dahlgren and Whitehead's Sunrise Diagram of Social Determinants of Health added. See also wikipedia Capability Approach

WIP Mostly a combination of Barone 1998 Advanced Personality book and Charles Hampden-Turner 1982 book Maps of the Mind

WIP combining theories of substance use disorders including addiction and dependence using a framework modified from birckmeyer 2004 article PMID