Complexity of the Self
A Developmental Approach to Psychopathology and Therapy
Vittorio F. Guidano
Hardcover
Hardcover
orderMay 9, 1987
ISBN 9780898620122
Price: $49.00 248 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
I. Theoretical Principles
1. Introductory Notes on Self-Organized Complexity and a Systems Approach
2. A Motor-Evolutionary Perspective on Human Knowledge
3. On Selfhood Processes, Attachment, and Identity
II. Developmental and Organizational Models
4. Development
5. Organization
III. Toward a Systems/Process-Oriented Psychopathology
6. Patterns and Processes
7. The Depressive Cognitive Organization
8. The Agoraphobic Cognitive Organization
9. The Eating Disorders Cognitive Organization
10. The Obsessive Cognitive Organization
11. Principles of Lifespan Developmental Psychopathology
12. Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Some Strategic Principles for Cognitive Therapy
References