Psychotherapy Is Chaotic—(Not Only) in a Computational World

Frontiers in Psychology

Günter K. Schiepek¹ 

关键词: psychotherapy processes;    mathematical modeling;    deterministic chaos;    common factors;    complexity science;    psychotherapy integration;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00379

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Objective: The aim of this article is to outline the role of chaotic dynamics in psychotherapy. Besides some empirical findings of chaos at different time scales, the focus is on theoretical modeling of change processes explaining and simulating chaotic dynamics. It will be illustrated how some common factors of psychotherapeutic change and psychological hypotheses on motivation, emotion regulation, and information processing of the client's functioning can be integrated into a comprehensive nonlinear model of human change processes.

【 授权许可】

CC BY