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

✍ Scribed by Günter Schiepek, Wolfgang Tschacher (auth.), Dr. Wolfgang Tschacher, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Günter Schiepek, Professor Dr. Ewald Johannes Brunner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 481
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics 58
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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 Psychiatric Health Services....Pages 416-433
Recursive Interaction and the Dynamics of Knowledge Production in Research Groups: An Empirical Simulation of Knowledge Production....Pages 434-451
Back Matter....Pages 453-473

✦ Subjects

Clinical Psychology;Biophysics and Biological Physics;Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics