Time, Models and Narratives: Towards Understanding the Dynamics of Life

Geert, Paul van

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“…If that is the phenomenon one is interested in, such a dense sampling frequency, which allows a capture of the interactional dynamics is what is required (see the work of Ramseyer & Tschacher, 2011 with similar high-frequency data). It is important that the sampling frequency matches the phenomenon of interest (see also Strunk, 1996 ; Thelen & Ullrich, 1991 ; Van Geert, 2006 for a similar argument).…”

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Therapeutic Chaos

Strunk¹,

Lichtwarck‐Aschoff²

2019

JPOR

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The conventional view on interventions as mechanistically causing interchangeable clients to get better has come under attack. Group-based and linear approaches fall short in adequately describing the idiosyncratic and dynamic nature of treatment processes. Non-linear dynamic system theories in contrast hold great potential to better conceptualize and understand the generalities and idiosyncrasies of psychotherapeutic change processes. The aim of this study was to examine whether we can detect markers of complex dynamical systems behavior in two single-case therapies. All sessions from both therapies were coded with sequential plan analysis using a 10s sampling frequency. The coding system incorporates verbal and non-verbal behaviors and allows for the representation of contextualized interactive behaviors. The high sampling frequency results in long time series, which allowed us to apply non-linear analysis techniques. We found strong support for complex behavior and the existence of a butterfly effect, i.e., a relatively short prediction horizon in which reliable predictions about the system's future behavior could be made. Further, critical fluctuations as a marker for phase-transitions were detected that were accompanied with different interactional patterns in both therapies. Finally, there was strong support for self-organized pattern formation, with a few interactional patterns dominating the interaction. Considering that we are intervening on complex dynamical systems means that we have to (1) acknowledge the principal individuality of change processes, (2) accept the fundamental limitations of the mechanistic input-output model of treatment effects and (3) appreciate the impossibility of long-term predictions of treatment responses.

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Therapeutic Chaos

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Lichtwarck‐Aschoff²

2019

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“…He is capable of multiple responses to the questionnaire or task, and of conveying more than one meaning to her questions (e.g., performance levels greater or less, or simply other than what the researcher is attempting to measure; Van Geert 2006). After being fully briefed by the researcher, he sees the researcher as no more infallible than himself.…”

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Three Approaches to the Disjunction Between Psychological Measurement and Psychological Persons: Methodological and Ethical Considerations

Lawrence

Dodds

2010

Integr. psych. behav.

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In this paper, we take forward Schwarz's (2009) disjunction between measurement-apparatus-questionnaire and measurement-apparatus-man to examine how the crisis in contemporary psychology is related to assumptions about two sets of connections in research: connections between research tools, research behaviours, and psychological phenomena; and connections between researchers and researchees. By setting up a research problem with methodological and ethical implications, we describe three approaches that involve different assumptions and research activities in relation to the ways each makes these connections: Disassociated, Conventionally Connected and Persons in Dialogue Approaches. We argue that a Persons in Dialogue Approach is the most appropriate approach for a 21st Century psychology in crisis.

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“…). Nevertheless, regarding earthquake preparedness, the following paradigms are much alive and embedded within today's society: ‘We simply have no time …’ (van Geert , p. 488), ‘We do not have time or enough time to prepare for earthquake’, ‘In Iran, to be prepared for earthquakes, takes time, a long time’, ‘An earthquake will not happen during our lifetime’ or ‘It is slightly probable that an earthquake will occur in this area’. The compression of time and space in a global world (Roche ) and the ways different societies experience time (Dehkhoda ) have contributed to paradigmatic approaches to time.…”

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Timescape of the earthquake disasters in iran: the intricacies of earthquake time and earthquake disaster risk reduction

Ibrion

Mokhtari

Parsizadeh

et al. 2015

Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography

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Time is a crucial coordinate for seismology, though often its ubiquity is forgotten by society as it is taken for granted and its potential is unexplored within the arena of earthquake disaster risk reduction. Earthquake disasters build up over time. An earthquake is a dramatic context that takes just tiny units of time to bring an immense tragedy of human loss, suffering and destruction. This paper targets the exploration of the timescape for four large earthquake disasters in Iran: Bam in 2003, Rudbar in 1990, Tabas in 1978 and Buyin Zahra in 1962. An investigation of the intricacies of earthquake time and earthquake disaster time is performed for these four earthquake disasters which covers a time interval of 52 years. These large earthquake disasters are considered as chronological milestones for the Iranian seismic timescape. This contributes to model seismic patterns with the aim to reduce the epistemic uncertainty and encourage better earthquake preparedness and earthquake disaster risk reduction. It is found that two perspectives, a geological perspective and earthquake disaster survivors' perspective and their associated aspects of time present a great potential for earthquake disaster risk reduction. A dramatic repetition of earthquake disaster time not only in time, but also in various places in Iran, highlights that living with earthquakes in Iran requires a better articulation of the relationship between the time of nature and the time of society and local communities. Furthermore, learning to live with earthquake time requires a long‐term mitigation of the earthquake hazard and improvement of the resilience of local communities.

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Time, Models and Narratives: Towards Understanding the Dynamics of Life

Cited by 13 publications

References 44 publications

Therapeutic Chaos

Therapeutic Chaos

Three Approaches to the Disjunction Between Psychological Measurement and Psychological Persons: Methodological and Ethical Considerations

Timescape of the earthquake disasters in iran: the intricacies of earthquake time and earthquake disaster risk reduction

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