Abstract
The holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective, an extension of some aspects of the theoretical perspective of Heinz Werner and his associates, is briefly characterized with respect to its assumptions, methodological approach, and its analysis of a variety of research on critical person-in-environment transitions. The theoretical perspective is applied in an analysis of the far-reaching critical person-in-environment transition that began with the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
REFERENCES
American Psychological Association. (2001, November). Helping a Nation Heal [Entire issue]. Monitor on Psychology, 32(10).
Austin American-Statesman. (2001, September 25). p. B-3.
DeAngelis, T. (2001). Understanding and preventing hate crimes. American Psychological Association Monitor on Psychology, 32(10), 60–63.
Goodnough, A. (2002, May 2). Post-9/11 Pain found to linger in young minds. New York Times. p. A-1. [citing a study jointly conducted by the researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Applied Research and Consulting].
Kaplan, B. (1959). The study of language in psychiatry. In S. Arieti (Ed.), American handbook of psychiatry (Vol. 3, pp. 659–668). New York: Basic Books.
New York Times. (2002b, June 16). New York Times Magazine.
Reser, J. (2002). New York, New York: The impacts of 11 September on place meaning, architectural symbolism, and environmental psychological understanding in a post-postmodern world. Population and Environmental Psychology Bulletin, 28, 3–7.
Roser, M. A. (2001, September 25). “New York” using, researcher says. Austin American Statesman. p. B-1.
Souter, C. R. (2002, June). Study looks at psychological effects of September 11. Massachusetts Psychologist, pp. 3, 5.
Wapner, S. (1977). Environmental transition: A research paradigm deriving from the organismic-developmental systems approach. In L. van Ryzin (Ed.), Wisconsin conference on research methods in behavior- environment studies (pp. 1–9). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin.
Wapner, S. (1980).Toward an analysis of transactions of persons-in-a high-speed society. In IATSS Symposium on Traffic Science (pp. 35–43). Tokyo: IATSS.
Wapner, S. (1981). Transactions of persons-in-environments: Some critical transitions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 1, 223–239.
Wapner, S. (1987a). A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented environmental psychology: Some beginnings. In D. Stokols & I. Altman (Eds.), Handbook of environmental psychology (pp. 1433–1465). New York: Wiley.
Wapner, S. (1987b). 1970-1972: Years of transition. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 7, 389–408.
Wapner, S., Ciottone, R., Hornstein, G., McNeil, O., & Pacheco, A. M. (1983). An examination of studies of critical transitions through the life cycle. In S. Wapner & B. Kaplan (Eds.), Toward a holistic developmental psychology (pp. 11–132). New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Wapner, S., & Demick, J. (1998). Developmental analysis: A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective. In W. Damon (Series Ed.) & R. M. Lerner (Vol. Ed.) Theoretical models of human development: Vol. 4. Handbook of child psychology (5th ed.). New York: Wiley.
Wapner, S., Kaplan, B., & Cohen, S. B. (1973). An organismic developmental perspective for understanding transactions of men in environments. Environment and Behavior, 5,255–289. (Reprinted in Meaning and behavior in the built environment, by G. Broadbent, R. Bunt, & T. Llorens, Eds., New York: Wiley)
Werner, H. (1957). Comparative psychology of mental development. New York: International Universities Press. (Originally work published in German, 1926, and in English, 1940)
Werner, H., & Kaplan, B. (1956). The developmental approach to cognition: Its relevance to the psychological interpretation of anthropological and ethnolinguistic data. American Anthropologist, 58,866–880.
Werner, H., & Kaplan, B. (1963). Symbol formation. New York: Wiley.
Werner, H., & Wapner, S. (1952). Toward a general theory of perception. Psychological Review, 59, 324–338.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Wapner, S., Wapner, J.G. Toward an Analysis of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Event from the Holistic, Developmental, Systems-Oriented Perspective. Journal of Adult Development 9, 241–250 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020282809770
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020282809770