Chaos theory in psychology /
This is a collection on the uses of chaos theory in the whole field of psychology including: theory; experimental perception; neurophysiology; clinical, organisational, social, personality, research, therapy and literature analysis; educational, developmental and gender issues; and more.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Contributions in psychology ;
no. 27. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prefatory Comments / Albert R. Gilgen
- The Leibniz-Abraham Correspondence / Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and Frederick David Abraham
- 1. Chaos and Deep Ecology / Sally J. Goerner
- 2. The Kiss of Chaos and the Sleeping Beauty of Psychology / Walter J. Freeman
- 3. Introduction to Dynamics: A Basic Language; A Basic Metamodeling Strategy / Frederick David Abraham
- 4. Stability and Variability: The Geometry of Children's Novel-Word Interpretations / Linda B. Smith
- 5. In Search of Chaos in Schedule-Induced Polydipsia / Brian R. Metcalf and Joseph D. Allen
- 6. Group Therapy as a Nonlinear Dynamical System: Analysis of Therapeutic Communication for Chaotic Patterns / Gary M. Burlingame, Addie Fuhriman and Karl R. Barnum
- 7. Psychocardiological Portraits: A Clinical Application of Process Theory / Hector C. Sabelli, Linnea Carlson-Sabelli, Minu K. Patel, Joseph P. Zbilut, Joseph V. Messer and Karen Walthall
- 8. Psychology, Chaos, and the Process Nature of Consciousness / Allan Combs
- 9. A Search for Bifurcations in the Psychological Domain / Albert R. Gilgen
- 10. Fractal Geometry and Human Understanding / Thomas A. Gentry
- 11. Erodynamics and the Dischaotic Personality / Ralph H. Abraham
- 12. Evolutionary Dynamics in Minds and Immune Systems / Ben Goertzel
- 13. Freedom in Chaos Theory: A Case for Choice in a Universe Without a Bottom Line / Frank Mosca
- 14. Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks / Paul S. Prueitt, Daniel S. Levine, Samuel J. Leven, Warren W. Tryon and Frederick David Abraham
- 15. Of Mice and Networks: Connectionist Dynamics of Intention Versus Action / Daniel S. Levine and Samuel J. Leven
- 16. Parts and Wholes: Connectionist Dynamics of Economic Behavior in Context / Samuel J. Leven and Daniel S. Levine
- 17. System Need, Chaos, and Choice in Machine Intelligence / Paul S. Prueitt
- 18. Synthesizing Psychological Schisms Through Connectionism / Warren W. Tryon
- 19. Chaos, Organizational Theory, and Organizational Development / Stephen J. Guastello, Kevin J. Dooley and Jeffrey A. Goldstein
- 20. Chaos in the Triadic Theory of Psychological Competence in the Academic Setting / Carlos Antonio Torre
- 21. Feminist Psychology: Prototype of the Dynamical Revolution in Psychology / Patricia L. Murphy and Frederick David Abraham
- 22. Commentary / Karl H. Pribram
- 23. A Postscript on Language, Modeling, and Metaphor / Frederick David Abraham.