ABSTRACT
The magical ability of the human mind to play with images and to represent extremely complex ideas in condensed form is the stuff and fabric of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It is, therefore, small wonder that researchers have found these processes resistant to study, especially when the usual methods of enquiry seek to reduce the subject to its component parts, rather than to understand its complexity. Traditional research models assume that everything has a defined nature, that events are fully predictable and predetermined, and that an event can be considered separately from its agent. The revolutionary discoveries being made concerning the structure of chaos have involved many events previously dismissed as too complex to understand by Newtonian laws, phenomena such as weather patterns, cloud forms, turbulence, the behavior of subatomic particles, or the essential uncertainty about the length of coastlines.
