Method of focal objects is technique

Method of focal objects (MFO)

1. Authors
 American scientist Charles Whiting (1958), predecessor – German psychologist Friedrich Kunze “Method of catalog” (1926), follower Edward de Bono “Random Stimulation Method” (1970).
2. History
Professor at the University of Berlin F. Kunze launched in 1926 with the first naming “Method of catalog”. Later in 1958 American scientist, C. Whiting improved and named to “Focal Objects Method”. In 1970, Edward de Bono in his book “Lateral Thinking” coined the “Random Stimulation Method”. (Using random input to create new connections). The thinker chooses an object at random, or a noun from a dictionary, and associates it with the area they are thinking about.
In a broader sense this method had its root in using random input for the expanding the field of interpretation in prophetic Chinese I Ching, ancient Greeks Delphic Oracle and Egyptian Tarot practices.