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This book represents the best of the first three years of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology conferences. While chaos theory has been a topic of considerable interest in the physical and biological sciences, its applications in psychology and related fields have been obscured until recently by its complexity. Nevertheless, a small but rapidly growing community of psychologists, neurobiologists, sociologists, mathematicians, and philosophers have been coming together to discuss its implications and explore its research possibilities.

Chaos theory has been termed the first authentic paradigm shift since the advent of quantum physics. Whether this is true or not, it unquestionably bears profound implications for many fields of thought. These include the cognitive analysis of the mind, the nature of personality, the dynamics of psychotherapy and counseling, understanding brain events and behavioral records, the dynamics of social organization, and the psychology of prediction. To each of these topics, chaos theory brings the perspective of dynamic self-organizing processes of exquisite complexity. Behavior, the nervous system, and social processes exhibit many of the classical characteristics of chaotic systems — they are deterministic and globally predictable and yet do not submit to precise predictability.

This volume is the first to explore ideas from chaos theory in a broad, psychological perspective. Its introduction, by the prominent neuroscientist Walter Freeman, sets the tone for diverse discussions of the role of chaos theory in behavioral research, the study of personality, psychotherapy and counseling, mathematical cognitive psychology, social organization, systems philosophy, and the understanding of the brain.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780805817379
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/1/1995
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 416
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
1 Chaos Theory and the Relationship Between Psychology and Science 3
2 Chaos, Evolution, and Deep Ecology 17
3 The Tower of Babel in Nonlinear Dynamics: Toward the Clarification of Terms 39
4 The Nostril Cycle: A Study in the Methodology of Chaos Science 51
5 Constraint, Complexity, and Chaos: A Methodological Follow-Up on the Nostril Cycle 61
6 Anger, Fear, Depression, and Crime: Physiological and Psychological Studies Using the Process Method 65
7 Is There Evidence for Chaos in the Human Central Nervous System? 89
8 Naturally Occurring Computational Systems 103
9 Belief Systems as Attractors 123
10 A Cognitive Law of Motion 135
11 Dynamics, Bifurcation, Self-Organization, Chaos, Mind, Conflict, Insensitivity to Initial Conditions, Time, Unification, Diversity, Free Will, and Social Responsibility 155
12 Chaos, Creativity, and Innovation: Toward a Dynamical Model of Problem Solving 179
13 Fractals and Path-Dependent Processes: A Theoretical Approach for Characterizing Emergency Medical Responses to Major Disasters 199
14 Chaos Theory and Social Dynamics: Foundations of Postmodern Social Science 217
15 Unbalancing Psychoanalytic Theory: Moving Beyond the Equilibrium Model of Freud's Thought 239
16 Chaotic Phenomena in Psychophysiological Self-Regulation 253
17 Strange Attractors in Patterns of Family Interaction 267
18 The Fractal Geometry of Human Nature 275
19 The Princess and the Swineherd: Applications of Chaos Theory to Psychodynamics 285
20 Regression as Chaotic Uncertainty and Transformation 295
21 Chaos, Psychology, and Spirituality 309
22 Cross-Cultural Chaos 319
23 Emergence in Neurological Positivism and the Algorithm of Number in Analytical Psychology 331
24 How Predictable Is the Future: The Conflict Between Traditional Chaos Theory and the Psychology of Prediction, and the Challenge for Chaos Psychology 345
25 Chaos: The Geometrization of Thought 359
Biographies of Authors 373
Author Index 379
Subject Index 389
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