SCTPLS Conference -- Keynotes & Workshops 5-7

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THE SOCIETY FOR CHAOS THEORY: FIFTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
     AUGUST 8-12, 1995; ADELPHI UNIVERSITY, GARDEN CITY, NY

Late additions:

GUEST SPEAKERS:

Ary Goldberger, MD, Harvard Medical School: Nonlinear Dynamics and
Physiological Processes

H. Bruce Stewart, Ph.D., Brookhaven National Laboratories: Phase
Space and Classifying Chaotic Attractors
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NOTE: General call for papers, conference registration form,
other scheduled workshops and registration are available by FTP
from <ftp.tmn.com> path = Chaos-Complexity. Or send your responses
to Jeffrey Goldstein, address attached to this announcement.
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In addition to the workshops announced previously, we are adding
the following Workshops on Saturday, August 12; 9:00-4:30--

CLINICAL CHAOS: What Psychotherapists Need to Know About Chaos
Theory; Linda Chamberlain, Psy.D., the Colorado Family Center,
Denver, CO, adjunct faculty. Univ. of Denver and Univ. of CO at
Denver. Dr. Chamberlain is currently co-authoring a book titled
"Chaos Theory and Family Therapy" and editing a book on "Clinical
Chaos." Ray Hawkins, Ph.D., Austin Regional Clinic and adjunct
faculty at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hawkins has presented
at earlier conferences and at APA on non-linear dynamics of
addictive behavior, brief therapy, Jungian type theory, and
couples' attribution processes.

The workshop will focus on the basic concepts and paradigms in
chaos theory and the implications of those ideas for clinical
practice. Emphasis will be on how to conceptualize problems and
solutions from a non-linear perspective. Presentation of several
case studies will help to link theory to practical applications in
therapy.
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APPLYING CHAOS/COMPLEXITY THEORY IN SOCIAL SYSTEM INTERVENTIONS:
Mark Michaels, Founder and President, The Chaos Network and People
Technologies, has given presentations on chaos/complexity theory at
General Motors, US West Communications, NASA, the Academy of
Management, and the Organization Development Network. He is an
adjunct instructor at both Illinois Benedictine College and the
University of Wisconsin.

Key models of human behavior are always drawn from contemporary
developments in the physical science. Kurt Lewin's pioneering model
of social psychology, developed in the 1940s, is no different. For
the past seven years, an international group of social theorists,
interacting through The Chaos Network, have been developing new
models of social intervention based on the emerging science of
chaos and complexity. This workshop shares the application of the
new sciences as developed by Network members.
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WORKSHOP IN THE NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF FREEDOM: Frank Mosca, Ph.D.
is a former professor in the Humanities at N.Y.U. and a mental
health counselor for more than a quarter of a century. He has
written on subjects as diverse as Hypnosis and the Meaning of Chaos
Theory in Literature and Human Freedom, and is the author of
Joywords: An Invitation to Happiness Through an
Introduction to the Option Method, and The Unbearable Wrongness of
Being: Exploring and Getting Beyond the Myth of Unhappiness.

The workshop will make an historical review of varying attitudes
toward freedom down through the ages and then will offer a
practical intensive method of breaking out of the apriorized
certainties imposed by myth, tradition and culture and gain what I
call final "volitional escape velocity" to exit the basins created
by human history and ideologies. Naturally, that does not mean that
you don't attend to the social and political covenants that obtain
or that you do not creatively engage the practical exigencies of
time place and circumstance. But rather, that you do so out of an
attitude of Awe-in-Freedom rather than a dread-driven-determinism.
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Costs: Conference: $110 for members; $145 for nonmembers;
Workshops: $110; $75.00 for students. Make checks payable to the
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences
and send to Jeffrey Goldstein, Ph.D., address below.


Jeffrey Goldstein, Ph.D., Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530
phone: (516) 877-4637; fax: (516) 877-4607; email: goldstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx