Question: The book The Mechanism of Mind, is by which Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant psychologist, and originated the term lateral thinking? 

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Parallel thinking: Parallel thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono.  Parallel thinking is described as a constructive alternative to: "adversarial thinking"; debate; and the approaches exemplified by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (whom de Bono refers to as the "Greek gang of three" (GG3) ).  In general parallel thinking is a further development of the well known lateral thinking processes, focusing even more on explorations—looking for "what can be" rather than for "what is".

Kevin Gournay: Kevin Gournay CBE FMedSci FRCN FRCPsych (Hon) PhD RN CSci Cert CBT is a psychologist and nurse by background.  He is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.  He is currently a Consultant Psychologist at the Priory Hospital North London and a Professorial Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre; University of New South Wales in Sydney.  He has been responsible over many years for a very wide range of research, policy and practice development in mental health care.  He also works as an Expert Witness; he has provided reports on more than 170 suicides; 20 homicides and hundreds of reports on people who have suffered the consequences of traumatic events.

Vertical thinking: Vertical thinking is a type of approach to problems that usually involves one being selective, analytical, and sequential.  It could be said that it is the opposite of lateral thinking.  Unlike lateral thinking that involves using added intuition, risk taking, and imagination through unconscious and subconscious processes, vertical thinking consists of using more of a conscious approach via rational assessment in order to take in information or make decisions.  This type of thinking encourages individuals to employ a sequential approach to solving problem where a creative and multidirectional response are seen as imprudent.  Vertical thinkers prefer to rely on external data and facts in order avoid failure or counterfactual thinking.

Edward de Bono: Edward de Bono (born 19 May 1933) is a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant psychologist.  He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book "Six Thinking Hats" and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.  Edward de Bono is regarded as the leading authority in Creativity.

Po (lateral thinking): Po is a word that precedes and signals a provocation.  A provocation is an idea which moves thinking forward to a new place from where new ideas or solutions may be found.  The term po was created by Edward de Bono as part of a lateral thinking technique to suggest forward movement, that is, making a statement and seeing where it leads to.  It is an extraction from words such as hypothesis, suppose, possible and poetry, all of which indicate forward movement and contain the syllable "po."  Po can be taken to refer to any of the following: provoking operation, provocative operation or provocation operation.  Also, in ancient Polynesian and the Maori, the word "po" refers to the original chaotic state of formlessness, from which evolution occurred.  Edward de Bono argues that this context as well applies to the term.

The Mechanism of the Mind: The book The Mechanism of Mind by Edward de Bono details the underpinning model of mind that leads to the many thinking skills developed by its author, including lateral thinking.

Brain teaser: A brain teaser is a form of puzzle that requires thought to solve.  It often requires thinking in unconventional ways with given constraints in mind; sometimes it also involves lateral thinking.  Logic puzzles and riddles are specific types of brain teasers.

Cognitive Research Trust: The Cognitive Research Trust was founded by the Maltese physician and cognitive specialist Edward de Bono in July 1969.  The trust uses a number of thinking tools based on the premise that thinking is a skill that can be developed and learned.  CoRT lessons have been taught in schools worldwide, including the third world.  Bangladesh has profited by application of CoRT tools.

Hunter B. Shirley: Hunter B. Shirley (December 25, 1927 – November 1, 2010) born Hunter Barentine Shirley, was a longtime licensed clinical psychologist and a former Associate Professor at Wisconsin State University where he headed a psychological research laboratory devoted to evaluating the world's first analog model of the mind.  He was most recently the Director of the International Division of the American Institute of Applied Behavioral Research and Human Relations Training.  Formerly Director of Behavior Analysis, Inc. of St. Louis subsequently he was director of the Counseling and Testing Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and later served as the Chief Clinical Psychologist of the Lafayette Institute of Behavior Therapy and Crisis Management.  Author of a number of books, including the trail-blazing book "Mapping the Mind", and the popular self-help book "Your Mind May Be Programmed Against You!" .  He is credited with having developed the most sophisticated model of the human mind currently in existence.  With offices in Staré Splavy near Prague, Shirley was in charge of a "Think tank" performing behavioral science research for NGOs and government agencies.  His final work "The Human Mind: A Guided Tour", a comprehensive compilation of his theories on the emotional system and the human mind developed over a lifetime of clinical and field studies, is in the final phases of editing in preparation for publication.  This book includes over 300 diagrams of the emotional system based on a cybernetics approach as he first presented in his book "Mapping The Mind" and in numerous published articles.

Thinking outside the box: Thinking outside the box (also thinking out of the box or thinking beyond the box and, especially in Australia, thinking outside the square) is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective.  This phrase often refers to novel or creative thinking.  The term is thought to derive from management consultants in the 1970s and 1980s challenging their clients to solve the "nine dots" puzzle, whose solution requires some lateral thinking.  This phrase can also be found commonly in dance, as encouragement to move creatively, beyond simple, geometric box steps and their basic variations, to literally step outside the box into more complex patterns of expression.

Supporting paragraphs: The Mechanism of the Mind Edward de Bono
Answer: Edward de Bono