1 Introduction -- 1: General Historical and Theoretical Perspectives -- 2 On the Implications of the Relativity/Quantum Revolution for Psychology -- 3 Changing the Known; Knowing the Changing: The General Systems Theory Metatheory as a Conceptual Framework to Study Complex Change and Complex Thoughts -- 2: Contextualist Perspectives -- 4 William James' Pragmatism: A Clarification of the Contextual World View -- 5 Contextualism, Naturalistic Inquiry, and the Need for New Science: A Rethinking of Everyday Memory Aging and Childhood Sexual Abuse -- 6 The Contextual-Epistemic Approach to Psychotherapy -- 7 Discovering the Social-Cultural Context of Research: Listening to and Learning from Research Participants -- 3: Dialectical, Organismic Perspectives -- 8 Dependent-Independence in Adult-Child Relationships -- 9 The Dialectics of Forgetting and Remembering Across the Adult Lifespan -- 10 Toward a Constructive-Developmental Understanding of the Dialectics of Individuality and Irrationality -- 11 Change and Stability in Marital Interaction Patterns: A Developmental Model -- 12 The Nuclear Crisis: Insights from Metatheory and Clinical Change Theories -- Author Index.