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Chaos Theory in Psychology

Edited by Frederick David Abraham and Albert R. Gilgen

ISBN: 0-275-95140-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95140-5

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400 pages

Praeger Paperback

Publication: 4/30/1995

List Price: $51.95 (UK Sterling Price: £29.95)

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

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Psychology » Psychology (General)

Description: This collection of essays shows how chaos concepts have motivated theory, research, and applications in many areas of psychology, from neurophysiology to social psychology. While it includes chaos theory, fractals, and neural nets, its central theme is how dynamical modeling in psychology may provide for a proper balance of unification and diversity throughout the field. The volume provides not so much the technical details of the field, but rather examples of both research and professional applications of the many directions that innovations using this unifying approach can take. It is written at a level accessible to the lay reader, but sufficiently sophisticated to enlighten graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, as well as professionals seeking to employ this approach in psychology.

Table of Contents:

Prefatory Comments by Albert R. Gilgen
Leibniz Correspondence by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and Frederick David Abraham
Basic Orientations and Concepts
Chaos and Deep Ecology by Sally J. Goerner
The Kiss of Chaos and the Sleeping Beauty of Psychology by Walter J. Freeman
Introduction to Dynamics: A Basic Language; A Basic Metamodeling Strategy by Frederick David Abraham
Dynamical Analysis of Behavior
Stability and Variability: The Geometry of Children's Novel-Word Interpretations by Linda B. Smith
In Search of Chaos in Schedule-Induced Polydipsia by Brian R. Metcalf and Joseph D. Allen
Group Therapy as a Nonlinear Dynamical System: Analysis of Therapeutic Communication for Chaotic Patterns by Gary M. Burlingame, Addie Fuhriman, and Karl R. Barnum
Psychocardiological Portraits: A Clinical Application of Process Theory by Hector C. Sabelli, Linnea Carlson-Sabelli, Minu K. Patel, Joseph P. Zbilut, Joseph V. Messer, and Karen Walthall
Dynamical Analysis of Cognition
Psychology, Chaos, and the Process Nature of Consciousness by Allan Combs
A Search for Bifurcations in the Psychological Domain by Albert R. Gilgen
Fractal Geometry and Human Understanding by Thomas A. Gentry
Erodynamics and the Dischaotic Personality by Ralph H. Abraham
Evolutionary Dynamics in Minds and Immune Systems by Ben Goertzel
Freedom in Chaos Theory: A Case for Choice in a Universe without a Bottom Line by Frank Mosca
Neural Nets
Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks by Paul S. Prueitt, Daniel S. Levine, Samuel J. Leven, Warren W. Tryon, and Frederick David Abraham
Of Mice and Networks: Connectionist Dynamics of Intention versus Action by Daniel S. Levine and Samuel J. Leven
Parts and Wholes: Connectionist Dynamics of Economic Behavior in Context by Samuel J. Leven and Daniel S. Levine
System Needs, Chaos, and Choice in Machine Intelligence by Paul S. Prueitt
Synthesizing Psychological Schisms through Connectionism by Warren W. Tryon
Applications to Social Progress
Chaos, Organizational Theory, and Organizational Development by Stephen J. Guastello, Kevin J. Dooley, and Jeffrey A. Goldstein
Chaos in the Triadic Theory of Psychological Competence in the Academic Setting by Carlos Antonio Torre
Feminist Psychology: Prototype of the Dynamical Revolution in Psychology by Patricia L. Murphy and Frederick David Abraham
Epilogue
Commentary by Karl H. Pribram
A Postscript on Language, Modeling, and Metaphor by Frederick David Abraham
Select Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index

LC Card Number: 94-29848

LCC Class: BF44

Dewey Class: 150


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