Dynamic systems theory and embodiment in psychotherapy research. A new look at process and outcome

• Main Author: Sergio Salvatore (auth)
• Other Authors: Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo (auth), Sabine C. Koch (auth), Wolfgang Tschacher (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Enactivism; self-organization; dynamic systems; embodiment; temporality; Psychotherapy outcome; Psychotherapy process; Complexity
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In an attempt to cease from reducing the world and its phenomena to linear modeling and analytic dissection, Dynamic Systems Theories (DST) and Embodiment theories and methods aim to account for the complex, dynamic, and non-linear phenomena that we constantly deal with in psychology. For instance,...