Title: Towards a dynamical systems approach to mental disorders.University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychological Methods.The last 30 minutes are reserved for a panel discussion in which we hope to discuss how to inform theory with available empirical data and future directions in studying psychological phenomena from a complex systems perspective. Adela Isvoranu will give an introduction to network models in the field of psychology, Giulio Costantini will introduce a new type of network model that allows to abstract the complex interactions between psychological variables for different classes of individuals, and Oisín Ryan will critically assess efforts to identify network structures that are associated with mental disorders.Īfter the break, we will use complex systems ideas to approach psychological phenomena from a purely theoretical side: Jonas Haslbeck will introduce a dynamical model of panic disorder, Gaby Lunansky will discuss the concept of psychological resilience from a dynamical systems perspective and Jonas Dalege will introduce quantum physics as an analogy for psychological measurements to question traditional views on the psychological measurement process. In this symposium we use ideas from complex systems research to approach psychological phenomena from two sides: the first three presentations use the conceptual ideas behind complex/dynamical systems to motivate new statistical tools to analyze psychological data. These data provide the basis for validating dynamic models empirically that has been missing so far. A second reason for the surge of interest in complex systems is the increasing availability of time-series measurements of individual persons using sensors and experience sampling methods. This change is driven by new theoretical considerations: for instance, in clinical psychology, mental disorders have been proposed to emerge from interactions between symptoms rather than being caused by an unobserved “disease variable”. Whereas traditionally psychological research has focused on verbal theories and statistical modeling of data, in recent years psychological phenomena have been increasingly approached from a complex systems perspective. Psychological phenomena are recognized as complex in that they are determined by a potentially huge number of variables that are interacting with each other non-linearly. Symposium at the Conference on Complex Systems 2018ĩ.00 – 9.30 Adela Isvoranu – Towards a dynamical systems approach to mental disorders ĩ.30 – 10.00 Giulio Costantini – Psychological dynamics in different classes of individuals ġ0.00 – 10.30 Oisin Ryan – Challenges in characterizing psychopathologies as “unhealthy” dynamic systems ġ1.00 – 11.30 Jonas Haslbeck – A Dynamical Model of Panic Disorder ġ1.30 – 12.00 Gaby Lunansky – Bouncing back from adversity: Towards a dynamical conceptualization of psychological resilience ġ2.00 – 12.30 Jonas Dalege – Psych(w/o)metrics: A Quantum Mechanics Analogy of Psychological Measurement ġ2.30 – 13.00 Panel Discussion Description
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