Work
A LIFELONG PROGRAM OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
First Principles Psychology is an ongoing program of research, writing, and clinical education devoted to understanding the structure and conditions of psychological change.
COMING SOON
Negative Capability Training
Professional Training
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Patienting Training
Professional Training
CIP-L (Psychosis) Training
Professional Training
In Development
These are the long-term lines of inquiry currently under development. As they mature, they may emerge as books, trainings, articles, or clinical models.
Between Knowing and Not Knowing: OCD and the Erosion of Distinction
A model for treating OCD centered around the differentiation of experience.
Distant: Therapy at the Scale of Schizoid Life
Rethinking schizoid treatment through scale and contact integration.
Micropsychology: The Smallest Forms of Experience
Tracking the emergence of experience at the smallest units.
The Efficiency Trap: Why Growth Requires Leaving What Works
Why efficiency becomes a developmental trap—and how growth returns.
When Nothing Is Something: Negative Symptoms and the Life That Persists Without Form
Understanding deadness as adaptation—and how psychological life returns.
Analytic Obstetrics: The Ethics of Therapeutic Delivery
The ethics and timing of psychological birth.
FPP: The Conditions of Psychological Change
A constraint-based model for understanding psychological change.
Operators: A Unified Grammar of Transformation (FPP 2)
The mental operations that transform experience across every scale.
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Publications
Manuscripts in Progress
Negative Capability
Manuscript
The first book to articulate the ontology of incompleteness and the capacities that make psychological growth possible.
Manuscripts in Progress
Patienting
Manuscript
A book on the therapeutic stance, relational capacity, and the subtle forces that make change possible.
