12^th Annual International Conference

The Society For Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences

Portland, OR, USA

August 1- 4, 2002

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PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP DAY THURSDAY August 1 1-5pm
1300-1700 Rooms TBA	WORKSHOP ABRAHAM: Simulation of Models, Research Design & Data Analysis in Nonlinear Research	WORKSHOP GUASTELLO: Organizational Behavior: Managing Emergent Phenomena	WORKSHOP MARKS-TARLOW, MIROW TOIFL & PORTER: Nonlinear Dynamics and Psychotherapy: some current views.
DAY ONE FRIDAY August 2 REGISTRATION ALL DAY
900-1000 Room 228	Introductory Plenary Welcome & talk by DICK BIRD, PRESIDENT ELECT SCTPLS “Chaos and Life”
COFFEE
1030-1200 Room 228	Plenary Address JIM GRIGSBY “Physiologic state and the regulation of behavior”
LUNCH
TIME & DATE	Venue One	Venue Two	Venue Three
1330-1500	SYMPOSIUM An Appraisal Of The Role Of Nonlinear Dynamics And Clinical Practice NB: Speakers will talk for about 20 mins each with additional discussion time. Order of speakers is not necessarily as shown PORTER: Symposium facilitator. TOIFL: A multidimensional approach in diagnosis and therapy. MIROW: Attachment, Attunement And Ultradian Fractals ROSSI: Genes, Dreams And Poincaré's Creative Process	ECONOMICS	SYMPOSIUM Terror and Response: some approaches to the events surrounding Sept 11 2001.
1330-1400		RICOTTILLI: Innovation Waves, Self-organised Criticality and Technological Convergence	BIRD: General introduction to the study of Terror and Response.
1400-1430		ZIDANSEK: Self-organization modelling of sustainable development	DOOLEY: The dynamics of a terrorist event: Tracking media content about 9-11 and anthrax
1430-1500		MENDES: Active Interest Rate Rules, Chaotic Dynamics and Control,	SWORD: Complexity Theory and Conflict Analysis: Applications and Intersections
TEA
1530-1630	SYMPOSIUM Nonlinear Dynamics And Clinical Practice Continued KOOPMANS: Taking N-Bind From Theory To Practice: An Assessment Of The Problems And Pitfalls MARKS-TARLOW: Fractal Dynamics of Psychological Boundaries	PAPERS	SYMPOSIUM Terror and Response: continued
1530-1600		PAVEL: Optimality of Randomized Response Strategies.	CHIASSON: Chaos, Complexity, & The Quest for Certainty
1600-1630		RADIN: Boundedness, Periodicity, and Applications of Max-Type Difference Equations	JOHNSTON: Mind as Medium in the Dynamics of Third Nature CONTINUED ON SUNDAY
1630-1800 Room 228	Plenary Speaker GEORGE MPITSOS “Attractors: Architects of Network Organization”
Friday EVENING	Freedom!

DAY TWO SATURDAY August 3
0815-0830 In memoriam Jeff Pressing (Location to be announced) .
TIME & DATE	Venue One	Venue Two	Venue Three
830-1000	ORGANIZATIONS	PAPERS	CLINICAL co-ordinated paper session: Direct interventions using nonlinear dynamics: 1.HAYDEN: Why we should teach psychotherapy clients about a nonlinear systems way to think about themselves. 2.MARKS-TARLOW: Fractals in direct clinical interventions during individual psychotherapy 3.LEE: Family System Interventions for the Fractal Family
830-900	GUASTELLO: Coordination Learning in Stag Hunt Games with Application to Emergency Management	SINCLAIR: Collaborative teaching of dynamic systems concepts in applied psychology: Reflections from three instructors.
900-930	SPOHN: Are violent societies formed the same way violent criminals are? A challenge to Levels of Analysis.	GRIFFIN: Scaling of Variability in Heart Rate and Gait Time Series
930-1000	GABBAY: Nonlinear Dynamical Model of Small Group Decision Making	KNYAZEVA: The Riddle of Personality: A Human Singularity of Co-evolutionary Processes
COFFEE
1030-1200 Room 228	Plenary Address STEPHEN GUERIN “Do All Ecological Agents Cycle to Work? -- Complexity at Work”
LUNCH
1330-1500	ORGANIZATIONS continued	COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY	CLINICAL continued
1330-1400	DOOLEY: Temporal dynamics of legislative bill production	PEIL: The perception of ehavioural self-regulation: The Emotional Sense	FLINT: Active Structures of the Personality based upon a Chaos Model Used in Individual Psychotherapy
1400-1430	OLSEN: Self-Organizing in a Bureaucracy	ADAMSON: A chaos theory based model of learning	ALI: Clinical Conversations: An Integrative Brief Psychotherapy Model
1430-1500	HALL: An alternative model for approaching system theory, design and operation.	WEINBERG: Chaos Theory, Brain Patterns, and Personality Assessment.	MCCOWN: Is Complexity in Humans a Viable Concept in Psychopathology Research?
TEA
1530-1700	ORGANIZATIONS continued	COGNITIVE continued	CLINICAL continued
1530-1600	Withdrawn paper this slot.	HOGANSEN: Parent-child mutuality in families with identical twins: A dynamic systems analysis.	FILLIPI: Clinical Impressions – Facing the Limits of Applying Non-Linear Dynamics
1600-1630	KOEHLER: EU Transport Foresight Planning: Comments on How Chronocomplexity Limits Such Strategic Planning Efforts	PEDERSON: The Emotional Landscapes of Daily Living:	LEVY: Application of chaos theory to a model of stress and coping: Simulational evidence and empirical validation
1630-1700	FLEEMAN: A Case Study of Diversity in Making Sense of a Change Intervention: Lessons Learned with Insights from Complexity Science	NELSON: Cross-over and knowledge flows in a second language composition classroom	MCCOWN: Novel Treatments for Traumatic Stress and Addiction: Implications of Skarda and Freeman’s Theories of Limbic Storage Tested after 9/11 Stress
SATURDAY EVENING at Days Inn 1900-late	Cocktails (1900 hrs; cash bar) Banquet (1930 hrs) at Days Inn After dinner HONORING ROBERT GREGSON Followed by two short video presentations: 1.Talk by Robert Gregson. 2. “Making Tea for the Mob” by Fnafilms.

DAY THREE SUNDAY August 4
TIME & DATE	Venue One	Venue Two	Venue Three
1000-1100	SYMPOSIUM Terror and Response: continued from Saturday	MATHEMATICS	CLINICAL
1000-1030	BAUSCH: Brittle Hegemony	OLIEN: Fractured Phase Space Portraits for the Non-Expert.	PINCUS: Complexity, Fractal Patterns, and Interpersonal Dynamics: An Empirical Test of The 5-R Model in Group Therapy
1030-1100	ARROW: Perturbations and reorganization of identity and social networks: Ideas inspired by al Qaeda and September 11th	LIPSCOMB: Pseudomathematics in the Human Sciences	MCCOWN: Addiction as a Dysfunctional Fitness Landscape
COFFEE
1130-1230	SYMPOSIUM Terror and Response: continued	MATHEMATICS continued	CLINICAL continued
1130-1200	PRANE : Dissociation, Terrorists, and Fractured Lives	MALLOY: Modeling Discrete Dynamic Systems with Online Java Tools	BLAKENEY: Understanding Addiction and Recovery: Chaos, Complexity, and Integrity
1200-1230	MCCOWN: Personal Belief of Personality Nonlinearity and Positive Responses to 9/11	PALMER: Reflexive Autopoietic Dissipative Special Systems Theory	TOIFL: Meaning of Information And Time for Self- Organization in Living Systems
LUNCH
1330-1500	SYMPOSIUM Terror and Response: continued	MATHEMATICS continued	CLINICAL continued
1330-1400	OYER-OWENS: Complexity and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century: Black Elk’s Fractal Technology for Human Transformation	DAS Dynamics of neural networks under external periodic influence.	METZGER: Communication dynamics associated with alcoholism and domestic violence: quantifying patterns of interaction
1400-1430	RAIKLHIN: Terrorist organization in regards to synergy and society evolution	SEMURA: Memory, Learning, and Thermodynamics	PINCUS: Borderline personality disorder: A case presentation based in concepts from nonlinear dynamical systems.
1430-1500	MCKELVEY: Studying vs. De-energizing Terrorism: Lessons from Complexity Science	LAPP: Sights and Sounds of Chaos: A Digital Exploration of Strange Attractors with Synchronized Sound	KREINDLER: Self-organized criticality in bipolar disorder – a case study
	TEA
1530-1630	SYMPOSIUM Terror and Response: continued	MATHEMATICS continued	PHILOSOPHY continued
1530-1600	ALL PARTICIPANTS: Discussion of emerging issues.	MITINA A Nonlinear reflective model of estimation in personal value preferences:	PHILOSOPHY FOX: Exploring a sustainable relationship with information in the interconnected universe
1600-1630			GOLDSTEIN: Wholes without Holism: The Construction of Emergent Wholeness
1800-1900	BUSINESS MEETING (at the Days Inn)