Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychotherapy
Сложность и нелинейная динамика в психотерапии
2009-04-28
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Human life changes with time. It seems therefore obvious that most of the phenomena that psychology and psychotherapy are concerned with are dynamic in nature. For human development processes, human change and learning processes, the dynamics and prognosis of mental disorders, problems manifesting in social systems such as couples, families, teams, or the question of how psychotherapy works, self-organization is ubiquitous. In the context of self-organization, complexity is a quality of changing patterns and patterns of change, produced by nonlinear coupled systems.
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Complexity characterizes changing patterns and patterns of change generated by nonlinear coupled systems.
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Nonlinear dynamics provide a conceptual framework for understanding psychotherapy, human development, mental disorders, and interactions within couples, families, and teams.
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Psychological and psychotherapeutic phenomena are fundamentally dynamic because human life, development, learning, and change unfold over time.
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Self-organization is described as ubiquitous across mental disorder trajectories, social systems, and psychotherapy processes.
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psychotherapy and the psychological, developmental, mental-disorder, and social-system phenomena it addresses
Research Subject
complexity, nonlinear dynamics, and self-organization in changing human and social-system processes
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