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1 online resource (xv, 323 pages) |
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Introduction : the history, meaning, and implications of chaos and complexity / Phyllis A. Perna and Frank Masterpasqua -- Toward a dynamical developmental understanding of disorder / Frank Masterpasqua -- The self-organization of psychological defenses / Marc D. Lewis and Natalka Junyk -- Dynamics of development in relationships / Alan Fogel and Maria C.D.P. Lyra -- Regression as evolutionary process : a view from dialectics and chaos theory / Phyllis A. Perna -- Dissociative disorders in chaos and complexity / Deborah Derrickson-Kossmann and Lynne Drinkard -- Reciprocal causality and childhood trauma : an application of chaos theory / Catherine J. Lasser and David S. Bathory -- Complexity and psychotherapy : promising dialogues and practical issues / Michael J. Mahoney and Amy J. Moes -- Systematic chaos : self-organizing systems and the process of change / Marc R. Kossmann and Susanna Bullrich -- Chaos and order in the psychotherapy group / Virginia Brabender -- Reflections on the therapeutic system as seen from the science of chaos and complexity : implications for research and treatment / Phyllis A. Perna -- Complex psychological systems : synergetics and chaos / Wolfgang Tschacher and Christian Scheier -- Future directions / Phyllis A. Perna and Frank Masterpasqua |
| Summary |
"The Psychological Meaning of Chaos: Translating Theory Into Practice" introduces practicing psychologists to the concepts, implications, and applications of the chaos theories that have revolutionized scientists' concept of the physical world over the past 30 yrs. This new way of seeing--variously called chaos, nonlinear dynamical systems theory, deterministic chaos, and the broader sciences of complexity--stands in sharp contrast to the linear, reductionistic models that have dominated most psychological thinking. In this new model, unpredictability and instability are accepted as intrinsic to complex systems and essential in any transformative process. Chaos is seen as a healthy and essential part of the creation process, without which new order is impossible. The implications of this new model of systems dynamics for understanding the human change process are enormous. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Issuing Body |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO |
| Subject |
Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
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Psychotherapy -- Philosophy
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Chaotic behavior in systems -- Miscellanea
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Psychotherapy.
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Psychiatry
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Psychotherapy
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Psychotherapy
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Chaotic behavior in systems
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Psychiatry -- Philosophy
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Psychotherapy -- Philosophy
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Trivia and miscellanea
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Masterpasqua, Frank
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Perna, Phyllis A
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American Psychological Association.
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