title: From chaos to complex order: personal values and resources in the process of psychotherapy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Chaos as a scientific metaphor for the therapeutic relationship.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide an approach to psychotherapy of a psychotic experience through aspects of a single case.
  
  
  METHODS
  Selective literature review and author's clinical work.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Appreciation of the water metaphor, and its deployment within Eastern philosophy and psychology, may help Western therapists develop further traditional interpersonal relations today.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Newcastle, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. p.j.barker@nc/.ac.uk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D012945:Social Values