Chaos and Nonlinear Psychology : Keys to Creativity in Mind and Life 1st Shan Guisinger

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190465026
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190465025
• Author(s): Shan Guisinger

The pandemic, and our response to it, have shown how unpredictable, irrational, illogical, suddenly changing, and muddled human interactions can be in a time of crisis. How can we make sense of such confusing and baffling behavior?

This book reveals how chaos and nonlinear dynamics can bring new understanding to everyday topics in social sciences. It brings together chapters from leaders at the intersection of psychology and chaos and complexity theories. Conceptual and user-friendly, it is built around six themes: 1) Seeing nonlinearity, 2) Finding patterns, 3) using Simple models, 4) Intervening nonlinearly, and 6) teaching a new Worldview. It takes no specialized study-although there is more sophisticated material and optional math for those wishing it. The techie will, in addition, find concepts and diagrams to ponder.

The volume is engaging, at times startling-whether about the weather, Internet, organizations, family dynamics, health, evolution, or falling in love. It reveals how many social, personal, clinical, research, and life phenomena become understandable and can be modelled in the light of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NDS) theory. It even offers a broadening worldview, happening already in other sciences, toward a more dynamic, interconnected, and evolving picture, including process-oriented appreciation of one’s own experience.

Table contents:

Introduction: Six Ways to See and Work in a Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NDS) World
Section I: Through a Nonlinear Lens
1. Nonlinear Dynamics: The Creative Missing Link in Wellness
2. Nonlinearity in Cultural Evolution: Psychosocial Attractors and Human Well-Being
3. Creativity, Chaos, Complexity, and Healthy Change
4. Human Nature from Chaos
5. Chaos as a Construct in Psychology: A History
6. States of Consciousness and Self-Organization
7. Ψ in the Garden of Chaos: Visualizing Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
8. Changes in Psychology, Chaos Theory, and Complexity Theory in the Last 25 Years: A Conversation with Stanley Krippner
Intermezzo. Look Again: Five Issues Reframed Using Chaos and Complexity Theory
Section II: Shifts and Deeper Vision
9. Embracing the Infinite: Creativity and the Nonlinear Self
10. Darwin and the Human Future: New Order Out of Chaos
11. Intuition in a Nonlinear World
12. Evolution, Chaos Theory, Narrative, and Dreaming: The Case of Anorexia Nervosa
13. Strategies for Creating the Learning Organization
14. Life Purpose and Intentionally Being Creative: A Cultural-Ecological Feedback-Loop Perspective
15. Ψ in the Garden of Chaos: Visualizing Networks
16. Educating for a New Era: A Conversation with Melanie Mitchell
Integration and Conclusions—Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology: Six Themes and a Third Culture
Index

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