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 the dynamics of a continuous psychological process across minds.

Under the isolated minds assumption, a great deal of ordinary experience appears as transmission. The atmosphere of a room that affects someone who enters it. A mood that passes between people without any exchange. An infant regulated by the nervous system of the caregiver . The analyst whose own feelings turn out to be information about the patient. Each of these requires a mechanism to carry psychological material across a boundary — contagion, simulation, projection, transmission.

What happens if we begin at the other end? Suppose psychological life — the flow of feeling, response, and meaning — is fundamentally one continuous process, and each individual participates in it through their own point of entry. Then these phenomena are no longer exceptions in need of bridges. They are what a continuous process does, with content flowing between its participants. What requires explanation is the opposite: the appearance of separateness.

That is what the filter explains — a pattern of selection deciding what is lived as inside and what as outside, defining what constitutes an individual identity, making experience livable by making it partial.

The model derives that the exclusion of attributes to maintain an identity is subject to a corrective force as an automatic attempt to restore wholeness. This homeostatic pressure brings into the individual's experience the aspects that he has excluded in the form of situations that are emotionally charged. What is not lived and "I" is lived as "other". This is equivalent to Jung's move towards the Self.

The treatment of the psychological process as a continuous one is not a simple theoretical inversion. It changes what identity is, what sensitivity is, what recurrence in a life indicates, and what happens to a person when the pattern that held them as an individual thins. This work follows those consequences.