Research Catalog

Title

Clinical chaos : a therapist's guide to nonlinear dynamics and therapeutic change / edited by Linda Chamberlain and Michael Bütz.

Publication

Philadelphia : Brunner/Mazel, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Chamberlain, Linda L.
• Bütz, Michael R.

Description

xvi, 225 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Psychology and the social sciences are in need of a new foundation, one that provides a better model for understanding complex behavior. Chaos theory and its newest permutation, complexity theory, offers an innovative, exciting and potentially revolutionary leap forward in the evolution of scientific thought. In Clinical Chaos, therapists and theoreticians from various areas in the social sciences will explore the relevance and implications for non-linear dynamics in observing, explaining, and understanding human behavior. At last, the scientific search can again encompass surprise, transformation, unpredictability, and pattern. This book is intended to introduce social scientists to chaos through paths that are already familiar. By linking chaos theory with existing psychological theories and established areas of clinical pursuit, Clinical Chaos emphasizes the relevance of this new science in providing a more flexible useful model for complexities of life.

Subject

• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Philosophy, Medical
• Psychology, Medical
• Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy > Philosophy
• Chaotic behavior in systems
• Psychology > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An introduction to chaos and nonlinear dynamics Linda Chamberlain -- Chaos and the clinician: what's so important about science in psychotherapy? / Michael R. Bütz & Linda Chamberlain -- Chaos theory and psychoanalysis / Michael G. Moran -- Chaos, energy, and analytical psychology / Michael R. Bütz -- Cognitive psychology and chaos theory: some possible clinical implications / William McCown, Ross Keiser, & Anthony Roden -- Systems theory and chaos dynamics / Linda Chamberlain & William McCown -- Humanistic/existential perspectives and chaos / Linda Chamberlain -- Dynamics of substance abuse: implications of chaos theory for clinical research / Raymond C. Hawkins & Catherine A. Hawkins -- Implications of chaos theory for the prevention and treatment of child abuse / Ray Quackenbush -- Dynamical family systems and therapeutic intervention / Barbara Hudgens -- The "Lost World" of psychopharmacology: a return to psychology's "Jurassic Park" / Linda Chamberlain & Michael R. Bütz -- Creative consciousness process / Fred Graywolf Swinney -- Chaos, complexity, and psychophysiology / Stephen E. Francis -- Organizational chaos: penetrating the depths of the orgmind / Laurie A. Fitzgerald -- Chaos theory and cross-culturalism / Michael R. Bütz -- Nonlinear research methodology / Steve Proskauer & Michael R. Buẗz -- Chaos theory and the future of psychotherapy: conclusions and questions / Linda Chamberlain & Michael R. Bütz.

ISBN

• 0876309252 (case : alk. paper)
• 0876309250 (pbk. : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^^98025958^

OCLC

39229736

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library