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The article argues that a dynamic systems theory approach can be helpful in understanding intrapersonal psychological behaviour changes. In terms of control and coordination, different movement systems - walk, trot, canter - are incomparable. This is also the case with psychological phase transitions. Person 1 can be nice in an mundane state and become life-threatening in an angry or furious state, while Person 2 can be relatively impatient and easily annoyed in the mundane state, but on the other hand relatively controlled in an angry state. Person 1 will then probably rarely go into the angry state, while Person 2 can easily switch between the two mentioned states. Some "attractor regimes" are rarely achieved under normal circumstances (a killer "sleeps" in all of us). Psychology often focuses on individual states rather than transitions between states.