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- Toward a Process Approach in Psychology
- Toward a Process Approach in Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Change, the Final Frontier
- Chapter 2 A (Selected) Foundation for a Process Approach
- Chapter 3 The Goal of Socrates
- Chapter 4 Esteeming Entities
- Chapter 5 A Person Acting amongst Persons
- Chapter 6 Cliffhangers and Utilitarian Infants
- Chapter 7 Causes, Kings, and Interventions
- Chapter 8 (Compl)explanation and King Alfonso’s Lament
- Chapter 9 What’s in a Name?
- Chapter 10 (Un)Certainties
- Chapter 11 Troubled Waters of Heraclitus’ River?
- Chapter 12 Psychological Science as a Complex Dynamic System
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Chapter 12 - Psychological Science as a Complex Dynamic System
From an Entrenched Substance-Oriented Praxis to the Emergence of a Process-Oriented Praxis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2022
- Toward a Process Approach in Psychology
- Toward a Process Approach in Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Change, the Final Frontier
- Chapter 2 A (Selected) Foundation for a Process Approach
- Chapter 3 The Goal of Socrates
- Chapter 4 Esteeming Entities
- Chapter 5 A Person Acting amongst Persons
- Chapter 6 Cliffhangers and Utilitarian Infants
- Chapter 7 Causes, Kings, and Interventions
- Chapter 8 (Compl)explanation and King Alfonso’s Lament
- Chapter 9 What’s in a Name?
- Chapter 10 (Un)Certainties
- Chapter 11 Troubled Waters of Heraclitus’ River?
- Chapter 12 Psychological Science as a Complex Dynamic System
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
With this chapter, we sketch a picture of a future process-oriented praxis. We describe what is required to instigate a theoretical shift toward a process commitment, and what that shift might look like for the psychological praxis. To flesh this out, we conceptualize psychological science as a complex dynamic system whose behaviour is currently dominated by a substance-oriented attractor state. We describe the dynamic mechanisms that serve to integrate the layers of practices into a living, breathing praxis. And we describe how the current praxis might be perturbed, such that a new process-oriented praxis might emerge.
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- Toward a Process Approach in PsychologyStepping into Heraclitus' River, pp. 266 - 291Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022