Dynamic patterns in psychotherapy - discontinuous changes and critical instabilities during the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-176

  Heinzel, Stephan ^a   Tominschek, Igor ^b   Schiepek, Günter ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Clinic of Psychosomatic Medicine   (Germany)

^c PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Critical instability; Nonlinear dynamics; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Process outcome research; Sudden gains

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STANDARD; SYSTEMS THEORY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SYSTEMS THEORY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896329685     PISSN: 10900578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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