The Process of Psychotherapy Causation and Chance /

• Main Authors: Tschacher, Wolfgang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Haken, Hermann (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Cognitive psychology.; Neural networks (Computer science) .; Psychotherapy .; Psychology-Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Cognitive Psychology.; Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks.; Psychotherapy.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.

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'...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .