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Chaos theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences (Paperback)
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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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