The human problem
A transdiagnostic map organizes suffering through compression, instability, excessive gain, rigid prediction, load and impaired return—while preserving diagnostic caution.
Core sentenceDifferent diagnoses can share a geometry, and similar symptoms can emerge from different dynamics.
What this adds
The new move
It proposes dynamical families that can sit beside—not replace—established diagnosis.
Publication briefing
Transparent status
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Dynamical phenotype
A profile of compression, gain, switching, load and return that can vary within one diagnosis and overlap across several.
Practical translation
For reflection and conversation
Three moves that return the idea to the field.
- Ask which dynamical pattern is active now.
- Keep diagnosis, mechanism and person on separate lines.
- Use overlap to widen inquiry, not to overclaim.
Educational translation only. Not a risk assessment, treatment plan or individualized medical advice.
One visual model
Six ways flow can become altered
The profile is descriptive and hypothesis-generating; it is not a diagnostic instrument.
Lecture poster
FLOW HIJACKED · 25
A Dynamical Taxonomy of Psychiatric Disorders
Different diagnoses can share a geometry, and similar symptoms can emerge from different dynamics.
Research anchors
Lineage, evidence and limits
Sources this page is thinking with
This is a focused set of sources doing conceptual work on the page, not a systematic review or exhaustive bibliography. The Research Library adds summaries, themes and cross-lecture links.
- Volkow, N. D., Koob, G. F. & McLellan, A. T. (2016).Neurobiologic advances from the brain disease model of addiction.New England Journal of Medicine, 374, 363–371.DOI ↗
- Trefethen, L. N., Trefethen, A. E., Reddy, S. C. & Driscoll, T. A. (1993).Hydrodynamic stability without eigenvalues.Science, 261(5121), 578–584.DOI ↗
- Durstewitz, D., Huys, Q. J. M. & Koppe, G. (2021).Psychiatric illnesses as disorders of network dynamics.Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 6(9), 865–876.DOI ↗
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