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Emotional inertia: A key to understanding psychotherapy process and outcome
2014
International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
The processes underlying psychotherapeutic change have increasingly been emphasized in both research and clinical practice. Nonlinear dynamical systems theory (NDS) offers a transdisciplinary scientific approach to the study of these processes. This paper introduces the NDS concept of "emotional inertia", the property of human emotion by which it retains its course so long as it is not acted upon by an external force, as a key to understanding moment-bymoment and also longer-term change
doi:10.1016/j.ijchp.2014.03.001
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