Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-342) and index.
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Introduction -- The social evolution of the person -- Complexity and group processes -- The fundamental importance of communicative interaction -- The emergence of self in the 'conversation of gestures' -- The physiological basis of mind, self and society -- The importance of belonging : vicissitudes of attachment and separation -- Some clinical implications of a theory of complex responsive processes -- Freud on the individual and the group -- The movement of Western thought : pointing to the antecedents of complex responsive processes and psychoanalytic perspectives -- Locating Freud's thought and its later developments in the tradition of Western thinking -- The development of relational and intersubjective psychoanalysis -- The incorporation of systems thinking into psychoanalysis -- Evolutionary psychology -- Foulkes' dualistic understanding of the relationship between the individual and the social -- Complex responsive processes : the movement of paradox and the transformation of identity.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Complexity theory provides a model for understanding human behaviour that is not based on the individual. It attracts a great deal of attention in the area of organisations and management, & this interest is rapidly spreading to psychology.