Behavior is replicable. Behavior changes slowly. It takes a lot of input to get a lot of output. Events or behaviors can be understood in isolation. Chaos is destructive, aberrant, avoidable, and unproductive.
Observation can be objective.
The book is divided into four main parts. In Part I, the basics of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics are described as an introduction to several key concepts that resurface throughout the book. An overview of the implications that chaos theory has for clinicians is also be outlined. In Part II, there is weaving together the familiar territory of various clinical orientations with paradigms from chaos and complexity. Depending on the reader's theoretical foundation, there is a variety of perspectives in this section to provide a starting point for a closer examination of the application of nonlinear dynamics to an understanding of human behavior.