Chaos and Complexity: Implications for Psychological Theory and Practice

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Summary: Cutting Edge Social Science
Review: This book is truly at the cutting edge of social science. Although chaos theory has supposedly already had its day and been dismissed as the latest intellectual flavor of the month by many in the hard sciences, it has only moved into psychology and the social sciences over approximately the last decade. Those in the social sciences who have studied chaos theory have found something of immeasuarable worth: "nothing less than validation," as Dr. Butz stresses in his preface.

I don't think that anyone can read this book and not realize that chaos theory is far from a fad but rather represents a new way of thinking about all of reality. This is an important book that deserves to become a standard introduction to chaos theory for those in the social sciences for years to come. Many will not need to go further. Those who do will find ample material to point them further on their individual explorations.