I Synergetics in Psychology: Basic Issues -- Application of Synergetics to Clinical Psychology -- Synergetics in Psychology -- Chaos in Health and Disease - Phenomenology and Theory -- Chaos and Disorder -- Instability and Cognitive Order Formation: Self-Organization Principles, Psychological Experiments, and Psychotherapeutic Interventions -- II Simulation and Empirically Based Models of Self-Organizing Processes -- Simulation of Psychological Processes: Basic Issues and an Illustration Within the Etiology of a Depressive Disorder -- Simulating Clinical Processes by Population Dynamics -- Synergetics in Psychiatry - Simulation of Evolutionary Patterns of Schizophrenia on the Basis of Nonlinear Difference Equations -- Dynamical Systems and the Development of Schizophrenic Symptoms - An Approach to a Formalization -- Psychiatric Disorders: Are They "Dynamical Diseases"? -- Using Multivariate Time Series Models in Systemic Analysis -- Interactional Bifurcations in Human Interaction - A Formal Approach -- III Self-Organizing Processes in Psychotherapy -- Synergetics of Psychotherapy -- Theories of Self-Organizing Processes and the Contribution of Immediate Interaction to Change in Psychotherapy -- System-Theoretical Prerequisites Concerning Paradoxical Intervention -- GOLEM - Two Adaptive Systems Communicate -- The Relation Between Mental and Social Systems -- Clinical Constellations: A Concept for Therapeutic Practice -- IV Studies of Social and Mental Self-Organization -- Self-Organization in Social Groups -- Applicability of Dimension Analysis to Data in Psychology -- The System Game as a Research Paradigm for Self-Organization Processes in Complex Social Systems -- The Systemic Character of the Psychosocial and Psychiatric Health Services -- Recursive Interaction and the Dynamics of Knowledge Production in Research Groups: An Empirical Simulation of Knowledge Production -- Author Index.