Complexity of the Self

A Developmental Approach to Psychopathology and Therapy

Vittorio F. Guidano

Hardcover
Hardcover
May 9, 1987
ISBN 9780898620122
Price: $49.00
248 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
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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