Hello from Pachal (Pat) from Houston

I'm looking forward to sharing ideas with this group of aspiring and accomplished writers. To begin, I'll share some background info leading up to why I'm writing a book on Descriptive Psychology in the Wiley for Dummies style. I have a Physics degree from Rice U. and a Ph.D. in Math from UCLA. I've worked in a variety of applications, including oil and gas and aerospace, am a volunteer Archeologist, and have lived overseas in three countries. While preparing to leave Denver in 1987 to work in the NASA manned space program in Houston, I met (through a six degrees of separation process) Dr. Pete Ossorio, the founder of Descriptive Psychology. We hit it off and he became interested in my new Lunar/Mars modeling and simulation work; I used some of the aspects of Descriptive in creating the models and, when the proposed missions showed that the crew would be soon overloaded, we designed 'person-like' robots to help the crew. Pete insisted that I join his Society for Descriptive Psychology (SDP), I did, and since have learned a great deal about its applications in clinical therapy and counseling, communities, status dynamics, and Philosophy. Folks in the SDP wanted to find a way to make Descriptive available to everyday people, but, alas, most of the existing writing was too tough to follow. (One member, Wynn Schwartz, did put up a Web site.) Last November, I offered to 'bell the cat' and the SDP encouraged me to start writing. So here I am.

Hello from Pachal (Pat) from Houston