Field Psychology

Sign in Subscribe

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

Hours of scrolling are not an absence of social signal — they are the densest social signal a nervous system has ever received: faces, voices, direct address. What is absent is the other half of the circuit. The person sees without being seen; the recognition system is continuously activated and the

Measuring porosity without circularity

Porosity — how much of the surrounding field enters a person — does explanatory work in this model only if it can be measured independently of the outcomes it predicts. A scale that infers porosity from distress, and then predicts distress, predicts nothing. The requirement, stated as a constraint: a porosity measure

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

Attachment theory and the Shared Field Model agree that relational patterns repeat — and disagree about what repeats. For attachment theory, people re-enter what they know: the early template, carried forward. For this model, people re-encounter what they exclude: recurring situations should disproportionately carry the pole underrepresented in a