Running head: MULTICULTURAL THERAPY/PSYCHOLOGY AND CHAOS

Multicultural Therapy/Psychology and Chaos Theory

Rory Remer, Ph.D.
Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology
University of Kentucky

December 6, 2008

Running head: MULTICULTURAL THERAPY/PSYCHOLOGY AND CHAOS

Multicultural Therapy/Psychology and Chaos Theory

December 6, 2008

Abstract
Culture and its various aspects--identity development, enculturation, cross-cultural communication, among others--are non-linear, dynamic, process phenomena. Multicultural theorists and practitioners (e.g., Sue & Sue, 1990) have complained about the struggle necessary to make multiculturalism fit with the present scientific perspective, Logical Positivism (LP). Rather than rely on such contortions (e.g., Fischer, Jome, & Atkinson, 1998), a paradigm shift to Chaos Theory (ChT), whose tenets are both more consistent with multiculturalism and more encompassing than those of LP, would prove beneficial. To make the......

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