Self-organization And Clinical Psychology: Empirical Approaches To Synergetics In Psychology

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Self-organization and clinical psychology signals the advent of a new paradigm in psychology. Physicists, neuroscientists and individual and grouptherapists have joined forces to elucidate the new and exciting advances that are being achieved by applying the concepts of non-linear dynamics and self-organization to the human nervous system and the mind.


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  • Series: Springer Series in Synergetics 58

  • Year: 1,992

  • Edition: 1

  • Pages: 472

  • Pages In File: 481

  • Language: English

  • Identifier: 978-3-642-77536-9,978-3-642-77534-5

  • Doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-77534-5

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  • Tags: Clinical Psychology Biophysics and Biological Physics Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

  • Toc: Front Matter....Pages I-XVIFront Matter....Pages 1-1Application of Synergetics to Clinical Psychology....Pages 3-31Synergetics in Psychology....Pages 32-54Chaos in Health and Disease — Phenomenology and Theory....Pages 55-87Chaos and Disorder....Pages 88-101Instability and Cognitive Order Formation: Self-Organization Principles, Psychological Experiments, and Psychotherapeutic Interventions....Pages 102-117Front Matter....Pages 119-119Simulation of Psychological Processes: Basic Issues and an Illustration Within the Etiology of a Depressive Disorder....Pages 121-149Simulating Clinical Processes by Population Dynamics....Pages 150-162Synergetics in Psychiatry — Simulation of Evolutionary Patterns of Schizophrenia on the Basis of Nonlinear Difference Equations....Pages 163-194Dynamical Systems and the Development of Schizophrenic Symptoms — An Approach to a Formalization....Pages 195-203Psychiatric Disorders: Are They “Dynamical Diseases”?....Pages 204-212Using Multivariate Time Series Models in Systemic Analysis....Pages 213-228Interactional Bifurcations in Human Interaction — A Formal Approach....Pages 229-236Front Matter....Pages 237-237Synergetics of Psychotherapy....Pages 239-267Theories of Self-Organizing Processes and the Contribution of Immediate Interaction to Change in Psychotherapy....Pages 268-282System-Theoretical Prerequisites Concerning Paradoxical Intervention....Pages 283-295GOLEM — Two Adaptive Systems Communicate....Pages 296-313The Relation Between Mental and Social Systems....Pages 314-322Clinical Constellations: A Concept for Therapeutic Practice....Pages 323-337Front Matter....Pages 339-339Self-Organization in Social Groups....Pages 341-366Applicability of Dimension Analysis to Data in Psychology....Pages 367-384Front Matter....Pages 339-339The System Game as a Research Paradigm for Self-Organization Processes in Complex Social Systems....Pages 385-415The Systemic Character of the Psychosocial and Ps