Self-Organization and Clinical Psychology

Empirical Approaches to Synergetics in Psychology

AvWolfgang Tschacher,Günter Schiepek

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Self-organization and clinical psychology signals the adventof a new paradigm in psychology. Physicists, neuroscientistsand individual and grouptherapists have joined forces toelucidate the new and exciting advances that are beingachieved by applying the concepts of non-linear dynamics andself-organization to the human nervous system and the mind.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-12-23
Mått:170 x 242 x 27 mm
Vikt:834 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Springer Series in Synergetics
Antal sidor:472
Förlag:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN:9783642775369

Utforska kategorier

Klinisk psykologi inom Medicin
Tillämpad fysik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Matematisk fysik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Innehållsförteckning

I Synergetics in Psychology: Basic Issues.- Application of Synergetics to Clinical Psychology.- Synergetics in Psychology.- Chaos in Health and Disease — Phenomenology and Theory.- Chaos and Disorder.- Instability and Cognitive Order Formation: Self-Organization Principles, Psychological Experiments, and Psychotherapeutic Interventions.- II Simulation and Empirically Based Models of Self-Organizing Processes.- Simulation of Psychological Processes: Basic Issues and an Illustration Within the Etiology of a Depressive Disorder.- Simulating Clinical Processes by Population Dynamics.- Synergetics in Psychiatry — Simulation of Evolutionary Patterns of Schizophrenia on the Basis of Nonlinear Difference Equations.- Dynamical Systems and the Development of Schizophrenic Symptoms — An Approach to a Formalization.- Psychiatric Disorders: Are They “Dynamical Diseases”?.- Using Multivariate Time Series Models in Systemic Analysis.- Interactional Bifurcations in Human Interaction — A Formal Approach.- III Self-Organizing Processes in Psychotherapy.- Synergetics of Psychotherapy.- Theories of Self-Organizing Processes and the Contribution of Immediate Interaction to Change in Psychotherapy.- System-Theoretical Prerequisites Concerning Paradoxical Intervention.- GOLEM — Two Adaptive Systems Communicate.- The Relation Between Mental and Social Systems.- Clinical Constellations: A Concept for Therapeutic Practice.- IV Studies of Social and Mental Self-Organization.- Self-Organization in Social Groups.- Applicability of Dimension Analysis to Data in Psychology.- The System Game as a Research Paradigm for Self-Organization Processes in Complex Social Systems.- The Systemic Character of the Psychosocial and Psychiatric Health Services.- Recursive Interaction and the Dynamicsof Knowledge Production in Research Groups: An Empirical Simulation of Knowledge Production.- Author Index.