Chaos and Nonlinear Psychology: Keys to Creativity in Mind and Life

ISBN-13: 9780190465025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 448 str.

David Schuldberg; Ruth Richards; Shan Guisinger

Recenzje

The volume comprises two parts, focusing respectively on theory and practice. The psychological constructs discussed are well-known in the discipline, but this approach to conceptualization will be entirely new to many. The ideas are challenging but important. Readers will benefit from the editors' contextualizing framework, and deep knowledge of chaos theory and its mathematics is not necessary to grasp the applicability of nonlinear dynamics to psychology in practice.

O autorze

David Schuldberg received a B.A. in Social Relations from Harvard, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UC Berkeley. He joined the University of Montana's Psychology Department in 1984, doing teaching, clinical supervision, and research. He was also evaluation director at the National Native Children's Trauma Center. Research areas focus on physical and psychological heath, nonlinear data analysis, assessment and evaluation, and rural minority health care. He is interested in training effective workers for rural health and well-being. Across areas, he is interested in "meta-methodology," choosing methods that work best "here," moving tools from one problem to new ones. Ruth Richards is educational psychologist and psychiatrist, affiliated with Saybrook University (Creativity Studies, Consciousness, Spirituality, Integrative Health) and Integral and Transpersonal Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies. She has studied Everyday Creativity in diverse settings (www.DrRuthRichards.com), authored/co-authored/edited multiple books, articles, and the Lifetime Creativity Scales. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Arnheim Award winner for Lifetime Accomplishment (Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts) and is on editorial boards of two journals. Her 2018 book, Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society, won a Silver Nautilus Award ("Better Books for a Better World"). Shan Guisinger is a researcher and clinician with 30 years of experience studying and treating eating disorders. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and completed postdoctoral work at the Yale Eating Disorders Clinic. In her research and practice she seeks to understand how biological, psychological, and social factors interact in complex systems to create or ameliorate problems. She has taught her approach in the US and Italy. Shan has authored articles for Psychological Review and American Psychologist on evolution, anorexia, and interpersonal relatedness. Her treatment manual will be published by American Psychological Association Press in 2022.