Beschreibung:
This book describes an encompassing modeling approach to psychotherapy, created with the most recent research in the field. Therapeutic interventions are staged within a therapist-client relationship ('alliance'), and become effective by the interplay of deterministic ('causation') and stochastic ('chance') forces. The authors use a Fokker-Planck approach complemented by a structural-mathematical framework from complexity theory.
Chapter 1. Causation and Chance: Integrating the dynamical-systems approach with statistical thinking.- Chapter 2. Psychopathological problems and disorders.- Chapter 3. Interventions in psychotherapy.- Chapter 4. The Fokker-Planck equation.- Chapter 5. Application to psychotherapy: Deterministic interventions.- Chapter 6. Application to psychotherapy: Stochastic interventions.- Chapter 7. Application to psychotherapy: The mixture of deterministic and stochastic interventions.- Chapter 8. The one- and two-dimensional Fokker-Planck Equation.- Chapter 9. Modeling empirical time series.- Chapter 10. Outlook.