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Psychopathological and psychosomatic disorders are typically diagnosed according to a standardized set of criteria that are intended to reflect stable behavioral, cognitive, and emotional processes over time. However, decades of research have indicated that time-varying psychological, biological, and social influences interact to shape the trajectory of symptoms of psychopathological and psychosomatic disorders [1–3]. Disorders that vary as a function of temporal and environmental dynamics may have meaningful dynamical structure. Dynamical structure refers to the time-variant, sinusoidal form that individual and coupled processes take across repeated observations. For example, bipolar disorder II, which is characterized by rapid cycling between manic and depressive states, displays an oscillatory pattern in the manifestation of those symptoms over time [4]. Although dynamically structured disorders are common, they are often not treated as dynamical in theory or analysis [5]. Instead, the majority of studies have relied on means-based approaches to describe symptom variation.

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    Most studies have employed the damped linear oscillator model as in (8.1) with positive signs for each of the terms. Alternatively, negative signs are sometimes used for each term [21, 29]. With a negative sign for the damping coefficient (ζ), be aware that the interpretation would be opposite to the interpretation provided here.

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Hessler, E.E., Finan, P.H., Amazeen, P.G. (2013). Psychological Rhythmicities. In: Sturmberg, J., Martin, C. (eds) Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4998-0_8

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