Theory

The Shared Field Model

A Unified Architecture of Psychological Experience

The Shared Field Model is a structural account of psychological life. It takes a continuous shared field as primitive and derives the individual from it — as a focal point of expression organized by a stable pattern of selection, the filter.

From this single architecture, the book develops an integrated treatment of identity, fragmentation, porosity, pattern recurrence, interpersonal dynamics, and integration, and closes with its boundaries: what the model claims, what it does not, and where it can be tested against adjacent frameworks.

The model is naturalistic. It makes no metaphysical claims, is compatible with contemporary neuroscience, and states its evidential commitments explicitly — including a differential prediction that distinguishes it from attachment theory.

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Karina Ferreira Firme holds an M.A. in Economics from UCLA and writes on the structure of psychological experience.