ABSTRACT
Finally, if dynamics, or changes with time, are also included in models of psychopathology and creativity, the result is a picture of human functioning in both its sublime and its more troubling aspects that can be described as a nonlinear dynamical system. This follows by definition if we view the creative process (as well, perhaps, as the onset and course of disorder) as emerging from a system of interacting components, changing with time, and with nonlinear causal connections linking at least some of the contributing variables. An interesting feature of such a system is that under certain conditions, it may be capable of chaotic behavior (see Schuldberg, 1998,1999).
