{"id":1844,"date":"2020-05-14T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2020-11-30T19:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T19:30:31","slug":"catastrophe-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/catastrophe-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophe theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This diagram [a work in progress based on Fazey and Hardy, 1988] shows how sudden shifts in behaviour can arise from small changes in circumstances [See <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/complexity\/CompLexicon\/catastrophe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rene Thom &#8211; catastrophe theory<\/a>]. It is used here to explain the process of how increasing cognitive and somatic anxiety might lead to feelings of depersonalisation numbness or panic attacks. Since these often result from small changes. Could this model be used to explain the experiences of hallucination and perceptual illusion? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1013\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cataastrophy-theory-01-1013x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cataastrophy-theory-01-1013x1024.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cataastrophy-theory-01-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cataastrophy-theory-01-768x776.jpg 768w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cataastrophy-theory-01-600x606.jpg 600w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cataastrophy-theory-01-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some links here to how this is used in sport science &#8211; in relation to somatic and cognitive anxiety\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XSSpOfPoIf4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Theory of Catastrophes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/users.fs.cvut.cz\/ivo.bukovsky\/SBS\/en\/Catastrophes\/Catastrophes1.html\">http:\/\/users.fs.cvut.cz\/ivo.bukovsky\/SBS\/en\/Catastrophes\/Catastrophes1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This diagram [a work in progress based on Fazey and Hardy, 1988] shows how sudden shifts in behaviour can arise from small changes in circumstances [See Rene Thom &#8211; catastrophe theory]. It is used here to explain the process of how increasing cognitive and somatic anxiety might lead to feelings of depersonalisation numbness or panic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[242,44,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}