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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

Paul van Geert
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Naomi de Ruiter
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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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 Psychology
Stepping into Heraclitus' River
, pp. 266 - 291
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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