The article shows that the repartition of the maximum entropy is the uniform repartition and contains the highest disorder degree which means the highest quantity of information in potential status. Entropy which measures the disorder is not opposite to the Quantity of Information (the dimension...

Perfectionism is one of the personality's features, as one cognitive style matches one type of behavior. The difference between normal perfectionism and morbid perfectionism is not a matter of conceptualization. It is necessary to make this difference in order to establish a series of clinical...

The article gives an account on the progress made in the study and modeling of the adaptive and learning processes and opens new outlooks for future research. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

This paper extends an epistemologically grounded biological theory of organization and knowledge based on Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology and three worlds ontology, amalgamating concepts from evolutionary biology, emergence and hierarchy theory, autopoiesis, and military affairs. We...

In this article, the adaptative and learning processes are analysed in point of view of both the biologist and the engineer, using as much as possible the same terms. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

Change management is the process of developing a planned approach to change in an organization. Typically the objective is to maximize the collective benefits for all people involved in the change and minimize the risk of failure of implementing the change. The discipline of change management...

This paper investigates an attempt to combine different simulation tools in order to build a simulation environment that can be used to model complex system behaviour. The component tools used in the project are: the four phase method, a simulation world view derived from the three phase...

This study presents in a theoretical and applications way the problem of coping strategies optimization, focusing on interfaces produced by communication and assertivity. Coping strategies includes the totality of mechanisms of which one person has to cope with life situations, eventual problems...

An efficient therapist-client communication is essential since it helps reduce resistances and facilitates both the therapy and the counselling. Some cognitive-behavioural or eclectic methods used in short term therapies are to be found bellow. These methods are based on Milton Erickson's...

The present paper refers to the main applications of clinical hypnosis in psihosomatic disorders: symptom reduction, lifestyle changing and pain control. The autor describes some ericksonian techniques of pain control: direct suggestions, dissociation, displacement of painful sensations...