metableticsn.

1958 Psychol. Abstracts 32 96/1 The term metabletics is coined by the author to designate a psychological system of thinking based on the theorem that human nature is not constant but subject to essential change.

1961 H. F. Croes tr. J. H. van den Berg Changing Nature of Man i. 19 Since the theme of change will occupy the centre of our attention, this book is about metabletics, a word derived from the Greek μεταβάλλειν.

1967 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post Crescent 2 Feb. b1/3 Metabletics..means the theory of changes... Metabletics helps us to learn respect for former opinions and to be modest about the opinions of our age.

1999 S. Halling & A. Carroll in D. Moss Humanistic & Transpersonal Psychol. i. viii. 103 Perhaps his most original idea is that of ‘metabletics’, in his own words, historical psychology. He asserts that human ‘nature’ is not fixed but alters as the human condition changes. For example, van den Berg examines psychiatric phenomena such as neurosis and the unconscious within a historical context.