Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Foundations -- Towards a meta-model of human change, from singularity to event horizon / Franco F. Orsucci -- A beginner's guide to the nature and potentialities of dynamical and network theory / Frederick David Abraham -- The emotional foundation of complex cognitive development : considerations for -- Psychotherapy / Mario Antonio Reda -- Chaos and self-organization in psychotherapy / Günter Schiepek, Stephan Heinzel, Susanne Karch, Benjamin Aas, and Guido Strunk -- Remembering, repeating, and working-through "an eternal golden braid" / Franco Scalzone and Gemma Zontini -- Adaptive specificity of the self and complexity of the inward and outward personal meaning organizations (pmo) / Bernardo Nardi -- Empirical and structural approaches to the temporality of alliance in psychotherapy / Wolfgang Tschacher, Hermann Haken, and Miriam Kyselo -- Experiential balancing therapy : an integrative psychotherapy theory and approach grounded in complex adaptive systems theory / David Pincus -- Transformations -- A beginner's guide to the nature and potentialities of dynamical and network theory / Frederick David Abraham -- Adolescence, order through fluctuations and psychopathology : a post-rationalist conception of mental disorders and their treatment on the grounds of chaos theory / Juan Balbi -- Experiential balancing therapy : an integrative psychotherapy theory and approach grounded in complex adaptive systems theory / David Pincus -- The nonlinear dynamics of clinical intuition / Terry Marks-Tarlow -- The recognition of the adaptive function of "role reversal" as a key psychotherapeutic tool / Andrea Seganti and Pier Christian Verde -- Dancing insight : how psychotherapists use change of positioning in order to complement split-off areas of experience / Michael B. Buchholz and Uli Reich -- Clinical-psychological counselling and complexity of interactions in a university context / Giulia Paoloni, Irene Sborlini, Mario Fulcheri -- How is the shape of change in the psychotherapeutic complex system? / Giulio de Felice and Silvia Andreassi -- Index.