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