About

About

Field Psychology is the work of Karina Ferreira Firme, an independent theorist.

Its claim is that people are not isolated; they participate in one another. The site gathers what a century of clinical and developmental observation has recorded about that participation, and proposes an account of why it occurs: the Shared Field Model, in which persons, families and cultures are nested instances of one mental field.

My knowledge of psychoanalysis comes from sustained exposure, over 2,000 hours as analysand, which cultivated the ability to perceive structural patterns beneath individual narratives. My graduate training in economic theory, with its emphasis on systemic modelling, emergent dynamics and equilibrium structures, strengthened the capacity to think in terms of interacting layers rather than isolated variables. Equally important was my engagement with philosophical traditions, particularly Advaita Vedanta, that emphasize continuity, differentiation, and the distinction between appearance and underlying structure.

These influences did not dictate the model, but they refined the lens through which experience could be examined. The work is offered to be used, tested, extended and corrected.

Elsewhere. The model is stated in full in The Shared Field Model: A Nested Architecture of Mental Fields (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23789427). Essays on its philosophical setting appear at karinafirme.com and in Essentia Foundation’s magazine, beginning with “The whole in every alter.”

A note on AI. The ideas in this work (the concepts, the connections between fields, the architecture of the whole) come from a long process of philosophical inquiry and a lifelong effort to understand and systematize. I have used AI as a writing instrument, to help word, sharpen and organize what that process produced. The thinking is mine; the responsibility is too. I stand behind every claim on this site.

ORCID: 0009-0008-8659-348X · Contact: research@fieldpsychology.org