Contributions to ASCAP on the following topics:

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Zoological:

   Alternative defeat strategies in shrews and rats

   The rat resident/intruder paradigm: a model for the !SS?

   The naked mole-rat

   Don't underestimate the dog

   Electric fish

   The hummingbird switches to the hedonic mode

   Reply to Randrup re voles

   More re voles

   London zoo: leks and mandrills

   The Least Sandpiper

   Sapolsky's baboons

   Hormone/behaviour relationships

Psychotherapeutic:

     Evolutionary biology demarcates the territories of specialist  psychotherapists and general psychiatrists. 

   Goal setting in psychotherapy

   Change in the psychotherapy system

   Teleonomic psychotherapy

   Pre-suicide family intervention in patients with grown-up children (Fall, 2003)

   Case supporting shiver-ATP clinical model (Feb 2001, p. 28)

   Special case of depression as communication (Dec 2001, p. 8)

   Developmental features of depression (Fall 2002, Vol 3 No 3, pp. 16-20)

Symmetrical and complementary relationships:

   Bateson and symmetry

   More on defining relationships

   Defining relationships with Venn diagrams

   Hostility in complementary relationships

   Asymmetrical hedonic relationships

   Hedonic symmetry - The Oilers

   Caught in the crossfire

   Reply to John Birtchnell

      The interdependence of affiliative and agonistic behaviour

Michael Chance and the two modes:

   A tribute to Michael Chance (ex-president of ASCAP)

   A tribute to Michael Chance (obituary)

   The balance of the two modes: deficits or excess? (A contribution from the Birmingham Group)  January 1989 pp. 1-7 (Vol 2, No. 1).  

   The two modes (communique)

   Agonistic and prestige competition

   SAHP

   Qahr and ashti

   The hummingbird switches to the hedonic mode

   A comment on Chance's testis theory

The yielding hypothesis of depression:  an essay and replies to comments:

   The yielding hypothesis of depression

   Reply to comments by Paul Gilbert

   Reply to comments by Murray Parkes

   Reply to comments by Dr Katic

   Reply to comments by Dr Hoffer

   Reply to Dylan Evans

   Reply to the Davies:  the failsafe mechanism

   Hamburg's theory of the function of depression and anxiety

   Has "right" evolved from "might"?

Depression:

   Positive feedback loops in depression (reply to Carlyn Reichelt)

  A further reply to Carolyn Reichelt

De-escalation at the emotional (limbic) level of the triune mind/brain:  an interpretation of Dori Le Croy's 'female emotionality'

   A reply to Leon Sloman

   Another reply to Leon Sloman (brain levels)

   Review of "Bipolarity" edited by Hagop Aksikal

The self concept:

   Help!  RHP is not mine (May 1988 pp. 2-3)

   A new book on self-esteem by Roy Baumeister (review) 

   The Chicago "pragmatists"

   Resource-holding potential and currency devaluation

   Review of "Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness" by Paul Gilbert

   Comment on "HIdden Minds" by F.Tallis

   Capability: the new RHP? (by JSP & RG) (March 1993, p.10)

Thymoleptic (anathetic and catathetic) signals:

   Catathetic signals (January 1988, pp.2-5)

     More about catathetic signals

    Signalling of resource-holding potential (RHP)

Natural selection:

   Frequency-dependent selection: a reply to Dan Wilson

   Sexual selection: comment on the Sloman-Waller exchange

Literary and philosophical themes:

   Agonistic behaviour portrayed by Milton

   Job's battle with God

   Learning from the dirt mover: reply to Dave Evans

   Survivor guilt

   Rustler's Rhapsody

   The Westermarck trap: a possible factor in the creation of Frankenstein

   Gurdjieff and the triune mind/brain (March, 1998, pp. 18-22)

Schizotypy:

   The schizotype as a dispersal phenotype

   Discussion of the migration hypothesis (with Val Geist and Michael Davies) -   July 1999, pp. 30-31)

   The followers of the prophet:  a role for a charismatic audience psalic

The Editor and sociophysiology:

   London School of Economics meeting

   Communique from John Price and Dan Wilson

   In favour of sociophysiology

   Suggested topics

   A vote of thanks

Other miscellaneous contibutions:

   Help!  R is not mine!  (June 1988 pp. 2-3)

   Reichelt-Price exchange.  (November 1988 pp. 4-7)

   Reichelt-Price exchange.  Homeostatic aspects of depression. (December 1988 3-6)

   Still more on the Reichelt-Price exchanges:  a postscript to comment on CRR's first contribution.  (March 1989 pp. 4-6)

   Reichelt-Price exchange.  (October 1990 pp. 3-4)

   Comment on RG's case IA (December 1993 pp. 6-8)

   The escalation of Robert Southwell.  (April 1994 pp. 5-8)  

   Response to 'Caught in the crossfire'.  (October 1994 pp. 15-17)

   Behaviour and genetics;  alternative strategies.  (November 1992 pp. 11-14)

   Report on Birmingham group.  (June 1995 p. 7)

   The triune brain.  (September 1997 p. 3)

   Summary of ASCAP London meeting 2001.  (August 2001 pp. 8-9)

   Special case of depression as communication.  (December 2001 p. 8)

   Call for contributions. (May 2003 p. 10)

   Thoughts.  (Winter 2003 pp. 8-9)

With R. Gardner

   Discussion of terminology used for the social competition hypothesis articulated first by John Price in 1967.  (May 1992 pp. 4-10)