Presentations and Courses by Peter G. Ossorio

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Galaxies at 8:30 Peter G. Ossorio, Ph.D. October 9, 1988
This presentation was given at the 10th Annual Conference of the Society for Descriptive Psychology. A transcript of the talk was published as Linguistic Research Institute (LRI) Report No. 42a. The LRI report can be retrieved from the Peter G. Ossorio Collection at CU Scholar by clicking here.
Rap Session Peter G. Ossorio, Ph.D. October 12, 1989
Dr. Ossorio’s Rap Sessions were given at SDP Annual Conferences. These interactive presentations gave people an opportunity to ask questions about topics of interest to them, or to ask for elaborations of Descriptive Psychology concepts and applications. Several of the later Rap Sessions (1996-2001) were transcribed and are available on this website. This video, from 11th Annual Conference of the Society for Descriptive Psychology, 1989, is a unique opportunity to watch Dr. Ossorio interacting with many of his students.
The Human Condition: Some Formal Aspects Peter G. Ossorio, Ph.D. October 20, 1990
This presentation was given at the 12th Annual Conference of the Society for Descriptive Psychology. A transcript of the talk was published as Linguistic Research Institute (LRI) Report No. 47a. The LRI report can be retrieved from the Peter G. Ossorio Collection at CU Scholar by clicking here.
Course: Personality and Personality Theories Peter G. Ossorio, Ph.D. Fall Semester, 1974
These lectures are from a graduate level course during the Fall Semester, 1974, that was given by Dr. Ossorio “to first-year clinical psychology graduate students at the University of
Colorado, Boulder, with a number of more advanced students auditing” and were taped by C.J. Peek, Ph.D. with Dr. Ossorio’s permission.

A CD containing the entire set of these lectures was first distributed in 2007 to members of the Society for Descriptive Psychology.

This course was offered again in the Summer Semester, 1976. It was transcribed and first published by the Linguistic Research Institute (LRI) in 1977 as
LRI Report No. 16, Personality and Personality Theories. It was re-published in 2015 by Descriptive Psychology Press (DPP) as Personality and Personality Theories: The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio Vol. IX. A PDF of the LRI Report can be accessed from the Peter G. Ossorio Collection at CU Scholar, by using a link on this page. A PDF of the DPP volume can be accessed here.