Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychologi

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Craig Piers; John P. Muller and Joseph Brent - Contributions by Stanley R. Palombo; Walter J. Freeman; Jim Grigsby; Jeffrey Goldstein; E Virginia Demos and John Muller Klappentext Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems offers a contemporary perspective on the mind through a compilation of original chapters written by some of the leading researchers in the area of complexity theory. In each of the chapters, the authors attempt to use complexity theory to inform and in some cases reformulate existing theories of brain function (Freeman; Grigsby & Osuch), personality (Grigsby & Osuch), psychic organization and structure (Goldstein; Piers), human development (Demos), psychopathology (Palombo; Piers) and psychotherapeutic change (Palombo). Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Complexity theory as the parent science of psychoanalysis Chapter 3 A biological theory of brain function and its relevance to psychoanalysis Chapter 4 Neurodynamics, state, agency and psychological functioning Chapter 5 Emergence: When a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind Chapter 6 Emergence and psychological morphogenesis Chapter 7 The dynamics of development Chapter 8 The language of complexity theory

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Brent, Piers, Craig Piers
• Assisted by: Joseph Brent (Editor), John P Muller (Editor), John P. Muller (Editor), Craig Piers (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2007
• EAN: 9780765705266
• ISBN: 978-0-7657-0526-6
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Psychological Issues; Psychological Issues
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis