First Principles Psychology
THE STRUCTURE AND CONDITIONS FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGE
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PSYCHOLOGY EXPLAINS SYMPTOMS. IT RARELY EXPLAINS CHANGE.
Most approaches focus on what a person feels, thinks, or does. They offer interpretation, techniques, or strategies. But something more fundamental determines whether change occurs: the structure that determines what the mind can hold.
FPP Starts From a Different Place
Instead of beginning with symptoms or techniques, it begins with constraints. What can this mind hold? What exceeds its capacity? Under what conditions can experience change without collapse? Load. Capacity. Threshold. Reversibility.
An Expanding Framework
The work unfolds across books, articles, and clinical models.
First Principles Psychology (FPP)
A constraint-based framework for understanding psychological change.
Negative Capability
The capacity to remain open to absence, multiplicity, emergence, and the open field.
Micro-Psychology
Tracking the emergence of experience at the smallest units.
Differentiation-Centered Therapy (DCT)
Treating OCD through the restoration of psychological differentiation.
CIP-L for Schizophrenia and Psychosis
Using countertransference to restore basic contact and the capacity for verbal thought.
CIP-H for Schizoid Disorders
Scale-based intervention to deepen contact, affect, and the lived field.
Binding Failure and Negative Symptoms
How psychological life disappears—and returns.
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