Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization: Dynamic Systems Approaches to Emotional Development (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development)

Author: Marc D. LewisPublisher: Cambridge University PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 0521525276ISBN 13: 978-0521525275Presented here for the first time is the idea that emotional development is "self-organizing." It replaces older ideas that genes or environments "control" the process of development. Self-organization is one aspect of a revolutionary approach to science that embraces "chaos theory" and the new "science of complexity." Physicists, chemists, biologists, and other scientists see self-organization as a significant way of explaining patterns in nature. Review "...a rich volume encompassing emotion theory and research with integration to clinical practice." The Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Review"Read the chapters of this book to get a state-of-the-art rendering of the co-dynamics of the brain and body, the person and context, in the formation and development of the emotions....This book takes a huge, meritorious st