Objective: While destabilization periods characterized by high variability and turbulence in a
patient's psychological state might seem obstructive for psychotherapy, a complex systems …

With the increasing use of real-time monitoring procedures in clinical practice, psychological
time series become available to researchers and practitioners. An important interest …

A complex systems approach to psychopathology proposes that general principles lie in the
dynamic patterns of psychopathology, which are not restricted to specific psychological …

Objective Current approaches of routine outcome monitoring (session‐by‐session
measures) expect that trajectories of change should move on a standard track. Patients …

Aim In many cases, the dynamics of psychotherapeutic change processes is characterized
by sudden and critical transitions. In theoretical terms, these transitions may be “phase …

Many outcome measures and session‐related questionnaires in psychotherapy are
designed for weekly or biweekly administration. Yet, today, technical developments allow for …

Aim Psychotherapy could be interpreted as a self-organizing process which reveals
discontinuous pattern transitions (so-called phase transitions). Whereas this was shown in …

Ten good outcome and ten poor outcome psychotherapy cases were compared to
investigate whether or not the temporal stability and flexibility of their process variables can …

Today, psychotherapy research and practice is confronted with other challenges than it was
during the twentieth-century steps of the profession. This chapter questions whether and …

The conventional view on (psychological) interventions follows a linear input–output model,
which is that the more of a certain intervention there is then the better the outcome will be …