Field Psychology

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What does Field Psychology say

This model challenges the isolated-mind premise — a paradigm widely assumed: that minds are sealed units, and whatever is shared must somehow cross between them. We start by observing that the existing model falls short of explaining many observed interpersonal phenomena and proceed to develop a naturalistic model that describes

Jung: the return of the opposite, without the hidden hand

Analytic idealism: Kastrup’s dissociation and the filter

The analytic field: Baranger, Ferro, and what precedes the consulting room

Roles in groups: where the excluded stabilizes

Scrolling, reciprocity, and the boundary of the self

Measuring porosity without circularity

Research

Roles in groups: where the excluded stabilizes

Family systems research established that groups distribute what they cannot hold: the member who carries the anger, the one who carries the vulnerability, the identified patient who says what the system cannot. This model adds a specific, testable claim about the distribution: excluded capacities stabilize in the members least defended

Scrolling, reciprocity, and the boundary of the self

Measuring porosity without circularity

An open test: does the familiar recur, or the excluded?

Adjacent

Jung: the return of the opposite, without the hidden hand

Carl Jung mapped the territory this model formalizes: the shadow as the excluded psychological material; enantiodromia as the violent return of the neglected pole; compensation as the psyche’s tendency to answer one-sidedness with its opposite. No tradition observed the phenomena more closely. The difference is in the underlying

Analytic idealism: Kastrup’s dissociation and the filter

The analytic field: Baranger, Ferro, and what precedes the consulting room