Abstract
This paper is restricted to a description of the research program on perception and other cognitive operations which Heinz Werner and I initiated at Clark University some fifteen years ago. Our research program is embedded in an experimental-theoretical approach which we now refer to as organismic-developmental. The organismic aspects of this view were specified for perception in sensory-tonic field theory (Werner and Wapner, 1949, 1952b, 1956b; Wapner and Werner, 1957); the developmental aspects derive from Heinz Werner's comparative-developmental point of view (Werner, 1940, 1957). In characterizing the research program: (1) I shall outline our general aims; (2) I shall very briefly describe some general features of the organismic-developmental approach; (3) I shall briefly describe the research program in the course of elaborating some specific features of the theoretical approach; and (4) I shall summarize some research findings on selected problem areas which will both concretize the theoretical-experimental features alluded to, and, hopefully, suggest areas of clinical application.
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