ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a consideration of what constitutes the ethnocentrism witnessed in clinical practice today. Chaos theory examines the dark and frightening aspects of science, bringing out of the shadows the complexities of real world experience. Scientists from a wide variety of fields have entertained this spectrum of new ideas and, it might be argued, so should social scientists. Many distinctions have been made between different orientations to the world in the cross-cultural dialogue. As such, the implications of the cross-cultural issues of rationality and individual and communal dynamics warrant consideration here. Integrating a mythological concept of chaos and science's chaos theory into the scientist-practitioner dialogue obligates one to recognize four issues. The inability to shift out of a scientific mindset and the inability to handle the emotional material clients present are two phenomena that point to the incongruence between what clinicians does as scientists, and what clinicians do as practitioners within the Euro-American culture.
