Modern Psychology

Mind as Displacement

Psychology hands you 300 labels. This course gives you one mechanism — a single geometry behind depression, trauma, addiction, anxiety, grief, and the rest. Learn to read any condition instead of memorizing it.

Get the course — $29 early Free: the Phronesis Form

~~$49~~ $29 for the first students · self-paced · lifetime access

The idea

Every disorder is a system held away from its ground state — paying to stay there, or stuck in a basin that isn't home. Name the ground, measure the distance, find the path back. One model. Every condition.

Depression is a collapsed return gradient. Trauma is a broken return path. Addiction is a false ground state. OCD is a self-amplifying loop. Once you see the geometry, you stop memorizing symptoms and start reading mechanisms.

The 10 modules

The Ground State of Mind

S⁰, displacement, and why rest is never free.

The Wrong Attractor

Addiction & OCD — stable, but not home.

Stuck Displacement

Depression as a collapsed gradient.

Irreversible Displacement

Trauma, PTSD, the broken return path.

Bifurcation

Bipolar & narcissism — two attractors.

Ground-State Divergence

Autism & ADHD — a different home, not a broken one.

Mandatory Processing

Grief, and why it can't be skipped.

Fear as Primary Mode

Phobia, panic, and extinction as return.

The Field & Performance

Flow, choking, shame, awe.

Return Paths

Therapy as return-path engineering.

What's inside

10 full lessons — objectives, worked examples, exercises. ~20,000 words.
10 worked diagnostic sheets — the model applied to a real condition, step by step, as answer keys.
The Phronesis Form — the one-page universal instrument you can lay on any mind, market, or product.
Grounded, not hand-waved — every lesson built on real, openly-archived source papers.
Self-paced, lifetime access — and every future update, free.

Who it's for

Therapists and coaches who want a unifying frame · students tired of memorizing the DSM · framework-thinkers and model-builders · anyone who has ever wanted to understand a condition instead of just naming it. Not a substitute for clinical care — a lens, not a treatment.

The offer

~~$49~~ $29

early price · first students · lifetime access

10 lessons + 10 worked diagnostic sheets
The Phronesis Form (universal instrument)
Every future update, free

Get instant access — $29

30-day guarantee: if it doesn't change how you see at least one condition, email me for a full refund. No questions.

Companion volume

Design as Displacement Management

The same instrument, turned on the screen. Good design returns the user to their ground state; extractive design manufactures friction and harvests the gap. 8 chapters of real textbook — from the user's ground state to a studio that rebuilds an extractive product into a returning one. The DC7 ethics of design, made precise.

Get Design — $29 Both books — $49

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The Phronesis Form

The one-page instrument at the heart of the course. Lay it on any mind — name the ground state, read the displacement, find the path home. Free, no email required.

Download the Form (PDF)

Questions

Is this clinical training or therapy?: No. It's a thinking framework — a lens for understanding conditions. It is not treatment and not a substitute for professional care.
Do I need a background in psychology?: No. The course builds the model from scratch. Curiosity is the only prerequisite.
Is the science "real"?: It's a framework — a way of organizing what's known, not a clinical trial. Every lesson is grounded in openly-archived source papers, and the course is honest about where it's model and where it's evidence.
What format?: Self-paced written lessons + worksheets you keep. Lifetime access, free updates.