Transformation in Clinical and Developmental Psychology

1 Introduction.- 1: General Historical and Theoretical Perspectives.- 2 On the Implications of the Relativity/Quantum Revolution for Psychology.- 3 Changing the Known; Knowing the Changing: The General Systems Theory Metatheory as a Conceptual Framework to Study Complex Change and Complex Thoughts.- 2: Contextualist Perspectives.- 4 William James' Pragmatism: A Clarification of the Contextual World View.- 5 Contextualism, Naturalistic Inquiry, and the Need for New Science: A Rethinking of Everyday Memory Aging and Childhood Sexual Abuse.- 6 The Contextual-Epistemic Approach to Psychotherapy.- 7 Discovering the Social-Cultural Context of Research: Listening to and Learning from Research Participants.- 3: Dialectical, Organismic Perspectives.- 8 Dependent-Independence in Adult-Child Relationships.- 9 The Dialectics of Forgetting and Remembering Across the Adult Lifespan.- 10 Toward a Constructive-Developmental Understanding of the Dialectics of Individuality and Irrationality.- 11 Change and Stability in Marital Interaction Patterns: A Developmental Model.- 12 The Nuclear Crisis: Insights from Metatheory and Clinical Change Theories.- Author Index.