Screen LibraryChaos and nonlinear psychology : keys to creativity in mind and life /
"Have you ever felt that human psychology is richer and more complex than the topics you learned in Psych 101, that great literature captured human motivational complexity better than scientists? Perhaps you, like the authors of this book, find that the linear math and statistical models that r...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Have you ever felt that human psychology is richer and more complex than the topics you learned in Psych 101, that great literature captured human motivational complexity better than scientists? Perhaps you, like the authors of this book, find that the linear math and statistical models that researchers have been using to capture psychology obscured many of the problems you would like to solve"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 433 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), forms ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190465025 0190465026 |
| Index Number: | BF39 |
| CLC: | B84 |
| Call Number: | B84/C461 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Six ways to see and work in a nonlinear dynamical systems (NDS) world -- Section I: Through a nonlinear lens -- Nonlinear dynamics; the creative missing link in wellness -- Nonlinearity in cultural evolution: psychosocial attractors and human well-being -- Creativity, chaos, complexity, and healthy change -- Human nature from chaos -- Chaos as a construct in psychology: a history -- States of consciousness and self-organization -- In the garden of chaos: visualizing nonlinear dynamical systems -- Changes in psychology, chaos theory, and complexity theory in the last 25 years: a conversation with Stanley Krippner -- Section II: Shifts and deeper vision -- Embracing the infinite: creativity and the nonlinear self -- Darwin and the human future: new order out of chaos -- Intuition in a nonlinear world -- Evolution, chaos theory, narrative, and dreaming: the case of Anorexia Nervosa -- Strategies for creating the learning organization -- Life purpose and intentionally being creative: a cultural-ecological feedback-loop perspective -- In the garden of chaos: visualizing networks -- Educating for a new era: a conversation with Melanie Mitchell -- Integration and conclusions: nonlinear dynamics in psychology: six themes and a third culture. |