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Living systems theory identifies basic principles that underlie the structure and processes of living things and relates them to the nonliving physical world, integrating and bringing order to the ever-growing mass of empirical data about them. In addition, living systems models and methodology are useful in empirical research on the great variety of systems of interest to psychology and related fields and in study of individual systems at any of the eight levels of living systems.
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Miller, J.G., Miller, J.L. (1992). Applications of Living Systems Theory. In: Levine, R.L., Fitzgerald, H.E. (eds) Analysis of Dynamic Psychological Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6440-9_6
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