A growing reference of key concepts from complexity science, applied to mental health care.
Three words that resemble one another but reside in three different worlds of thought.
Why a group average rarely tells us what one person needs.
Research at the level at which we also work: the patient before us.
From thermodynamics to therapy: how a physics concept speaks of rigidity.
The states a system always falls back into — whether helpful or not.
Why change is sometimes abrupt — and what that means for recognising it.
The mechanism that drives addiction as well as recovery — and everything between.
Why parts do not always explain what the whole does — and why that is not a problem.
How systems create order without anyone directing it.
The precursors of transition — and what we can do with them in the consulting room.
Patterns that repeat themselves across scales — and what that may mean.
Recurring patterns in time — from sleep-wake regulation to the mood cycle.
Not disorder, but sensitivity. A deterministic system that becomes unpredictable.
The moment at which a system may go two ways.