Emotion, development, and self-organization : dynamic systems approaches to emotional development

Foreword - Alan Fogel. Introduction - A new approach to the study of emotional development. Part 1 - Intrapersonal processes. 1 Self-organization of discrete emotions, emotion patterns, and emotion-cognition relations - Carroll E. Izard, Brian P. Ackerman, Kristen M Schoff, and Sarah E. Fine. 2 Emotional self-organization at three time scales - Marc D. Lewis. 3 Emotions as episodes of subsystem synchronization driven by nonlinear appraisal processes - Klaus R. Scherer. 4 Surprise! Facial expressions can be coordinative motor structures - Linda A. Camras. 5 The dynamic construction of emotion: varieties in anger - Michael F. Mascolo, Debra Harkins, and Thomas Harakal. Part 2 - Neurobiological perspectives. 6 The self-organization of the right brain and the neurobiology of emotional development - Allan N. Schore. 7 Motivation of neural plasticity: neural mechanisms in the self-organization of depression - Kate L. Harkness and Don M. Tucker. 8 Emotion is essential to all intentional behaviors - Walter J. Freeman. 9 The neurodynamics of emotions: an evolutionary-neurodevelopmental view - Jaak Panksepp. Part 3 - Interpersonal processes. 10 The self-organization of parent-child relations: beyond bidirectional models - Isabela Granic. 11 Attachment and self-organization - Deborah J. Laible and Ross A.Thompson. 12 The dynamics of emotion-related behaviors in infancy - Carolina de Weerth and Paul van Geert. 13 Theoretical and mathematical modeling of marriage - Kimberly D. Ryan, John M. Gottman, James D. Murray, Sybil Carrere, and Catherine Swanson. Commentary: The dynamics of emotional development: models, metaphors, and methods - Daniel P. Keating and Fiona K. Miller

'In the last twenty to thirty years, a new way to understand complex systems has emerged in the natural sciences--an approach often called nonlinear dynamics, dynamical systems theory, or chaos theory. This perspective has allowed scientists to trace the emergence of order from disorder, and in particular the emergence of complex, higher-order forms from interactions among lower-order constituents. This process is called self-organization, and it is thought to be responsible for both change and continuity in physical, biological, and social systems. Recently, principles of self-organizing dynamic systems have been imported into psychology, and especially developmental psychology, where they have helped us reconceptualize basic processes of motor and cognitive development. [This] is the first book to apply these principles to emotional development....a comprehensive and innovative volume....'

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