Self-Organization and Clinical Psychology Empirical Approaches to Synergetics in Psychology

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-...

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Other Authors: Tschacher, Wolfgang (Editor), Schiepek, Günter (Editor), Brunner, Ewald J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1992, 1992
Edition:1st ed. 1992
Series:Springer Series in Synergetics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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