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Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems (Hardcover): Craig Piers, John P. Muller, Joseph Brent Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems (Hardcover)
Craig Piers, John P. Muller, Joseph Brent; Contributions by Stanley R Palombo, Walter J. Freeman, …
R2,528 Discovery Miles 25 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how nonlinear dynamical systems evolve and change over time and draws on research arising from chaos theory, self-organization, artificial intelligence and cellular automata, to name a few. This emerging discipline shows many points of convergence with psychological theory and practice, emphasizing that history is irreversible and discontinuous, that small early interventions can have large and unexpected later effects, that each life trajectory is unique yet patterned, that measurement error is not random and cannot be justifiably distributed equally across experimental conditions, that a system's collective and coordinated organization is emergent and often arises from simple components in interaction, and that change is more likely to emerge under conditions of optimal turbulence.

The Embodied Subject - Minding the Body in Psychoanalysis (Hardcover, New): John P. Muller, Jane G. Tillman The Embodied Subject - Minding the Body in Psychoanalysis (Hardcover, New)
John P. Muller, Jane G. Tillman; Contributions by John P. Muller, Arnold H Modell, Richard B Siimpson, …
R2,703 Discovery Miles 27 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms and signs, Freud noted in 1895, "join in the conversation" by taking bodily form. The body and the mind form a nexus, which is the proper area of study for psychoanalysis. Because this is a vast field of inquiry, a pluralistic perspective is taken by this collection of papers, ranging from philosophic and semiotic understandings of the body, to Freudian, Lacanian, feminist, and object relations hypotheses. Clinical phsnomena such as self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation are addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's discoveries. This volume includes representative work from established psychoanalysts (Kalinich, Modell), psychoanalysts with sophisticated philosophical grounding (Frie, Simpson), and clinicians working with severely disturbed patients (Elmendorf, Plakun, Tillman, Fromm).

The Embodied Subject - Minding the Body in Psychoanalysis (Paperback): John P. Muller, Jane G. Tillman The Embodied Subject - Minding the Body in Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
John P. Muller, Jane G. Tillman; Contributions by John P. Muller, Arnold H Modell, Richard B Siimpson, …
R1,385 Discovery Miles 13 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms and signs, Freud noted in 1895, 'join in the conversation' by taking bodily form. The body and the mind form a nexus, which is the proper area of study for psychoanalysis. Because this is a vast field of inquiry, a pluralistic perspective is taken by this collection of papers, ranging from philosophic and semiotic understandings of the body, to Freudian, Lacanian, feminist, and object relations hypotheses. Clinical phsnomena such as self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation are addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's discoveries. This volume includes representative work from established psychoanalysts (Kalinich, Modell), psychoanalysts with sophisticated philosophical grounding (Frie, Simpson), and clinicians working with severely disturbed patients (Elmendorf, Plakun, Tillman, Fromm).

Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems (Paperback, New): Craig Piers, John P. Muller, Joseph Brent Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems (Paperback, New)
Craig Piers, John P. Muller, Joseph Brent; Contributions by Stanley R Palombo, Walter J. Freeman, …
R1,391 Discovery Miles 13 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how nonlinear dynamical systems evolve and change over time and draws on research arising from chaos theory, self-organization, artificial intelligence and cellular automata, to name a few. This emerging discipline shows many points of convergence with psychological theory and practice, emphasizing that history is irreversible and discontinuous, that small early interventions can have large and unexpected later effects, that each life trajectory is unique yet patterned, that measurement error is not random and cannot be justifiably distributed equally across experimental conditions, that a system's collective and coordinated organization is emergent and often arises from simple components in interaction, and that change is more likely to emerge under conditions of optimal turbulence.

Beyond the Psychoanalytic Dyad - Developmental Semiotics in Freud, Peirce, and Lacan (Hardcover, Reissue): John P. Muller Beyond the Psychoanalytic Dyad - Developmental Semiotics in Freud, Peirce, and Lacan (Hardcover, Reissue)
John P. Muller
R3,842 Discovery Miles 38 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this original work of psychoanalytic theory, John Muller explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. Muller explores how Lacan's way of understanding experience through three dimensions--the real, the imaginary and the symbolic--can be useful both for thinking about cultural phenomena and for understanding the complexities involved in treating psychotic patients. Muller develops Lacan's perspective gradually, presenting it as distinctive approaches to data from a variety of sources, such as cognitive, social and developmental psychology, literature, history, art, and psychoanalytic treatment.
The book's first four chapters present Muller's reading of selected data from child development research, psychology and linguistics, approximating a semiotic model of "normal" development. The following three chapters examine in a Lacanian framework the structural basis of psychotic stages as indicative of massive semiotic failure in development. The final chapters on human narcissism suggest reasons that "normal" development may be impossible.

Beyond the Psychoanalytic Dyad - Developmental Semiotics in Freud, Peirce, and Lacan (Paperback, New): John P. Muller Beyond the Psychoanalytic Dyad - Developmental Semiotics in Freud, Peirce, and Lacan (Paperback, New)
John P. Muller
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This work explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French analyst Jacques Lacan and the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

The Purloined Poe - Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading (Paperback): John P. Muller, William J. Richardson The Purloined Poe - Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading (Paperback)
John P. Muller, William J. Richardson
R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn spawned further responses from other writers. "The Purloined Poe" brings Poe's story together with these readings to provide a structured exercise in the elaboration of text interpretation.

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