Toward a Relational Epistemology of Mind: A Unified Manifesto Deconstructing Biomedical Reductionism and Establishing the Ecology of Connection
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This manifesto serves as the architectural capstone and unifying theoretical synthesis for the preceding seven-part investigation into institutional psychiatry, iatrogenic attrition, and commercialized nosology. We present a rigorous deconstruction of biomedical reductionism, unmasking it as a closed-system ideology designed to translate the systemic dislocations of hyper-capitalist environments into localized, individual brain defects. By aggregating the empirical lines of evidence established across our previous papers—including neuroleptic-induced frontal lobe attrition, the structural financial conflicts of interest within diagnostic panels, and the generational replication crises of symptom-based manuals—we demonstrate that the current clinical apparatus actively manufactures the chronic disability it claims to treat. In response, we formulate an objective Relational Epistemology of Mind. This model re-maps human psychological distress not as internal pathology, but as an emergent, adaptive, and highly integrated somatosensory response to environmental unsafety, structural alienation, and historical trauma. Synthesizing principles of autonomic neurobiology, polyvagal safety, the person-in-environment paradigm, and unified field dynamics, we establish the ecology of connection as the absolute baseline for structural healing, functional normalization, and cognitive sovereignty.
Author: Garrido, Daphne
Language: English
Topic: Mental Health and Psychiatry
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7161605896
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