Modern Psychology & Design · Phronesis
Mind as Displacement
Psychology hands you 300 labels. This course gives you one mechanism — every condition read as displacement from a ground state. Name the ground, measure the distance, engineer the path back.
10 modules · grounded in the displacement archive. Every module is free to read. The lessons are free to read. The full course is $29 on Gumroad.
01The Ground State of Mindread free
02The Wrong Attractorread free
03Stuck and Collapsed Displacementdepression: the map goes flat — why every direction costs the same, and what restores the gradient.read free
04Irreversible Displacementtrauma: why you can't just go back — and what a rebuilt return path actually looks like.read free
05Bifurcation and Instabilitybipolar and narcissism: minds with two stable homes, and the physics of the switch.read free
06Ground-State Divergenceautism & adhd: a different home, not a broken one — and why forcing the 'normal' ground fails.read free
07Mandatory Processinggrief: the one displacement that can't be skipped, only walked at its own pace.read free
08Fear as Primary Modephobia and panic: an alarm with the gain turned up — extinction as the way home.read free
09The Field, Performance, and the Self-Statesflow, choking, shame, awe — what performing does to your distance from home.read free
10Return Paths: Therapy as Engineeringevery school of therapy as one move: rebuilding the return gradient. pick by mechanism, not brand.read free
The course: textbook and worksheets, $29
The polished textbook PDF and the worked diagnostic sheets — $29. the lessons stay free to read.
Get the course, $29
Next: read Designing the Mind — the same mechanism, turned on attention, memory, and decision. Or grab both textbooks together ($29). When you want it read onto your own life, the course is the next step.
Prefer the raw source? Every lesson + worksheet is openly archived on GitHub, grounded in the Zenodo archive.