Geometry of mental diseases
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: We apply the 2D Heuristic of the Intelligible to the domain of mental illness, proposing a unified diagnostic framework grounded in the geom- etry of the self. Mental disorders are interpreted as misalignments of the self-world interface—collapsed axes, frozen interfaces, broken projec- tions, decoupled Lagrangians, or suboptimal attractors. We map major psychiatric conditions onto this geometry and show that the Category Er- ror Detector (CED) can diagnose the type and severity of misalignment. The framework dissolves the artificial boundaries between diagnostic cat- egories and provides a coherent, testable, and clinically applicable model for understanding mental suffering.
Authors: Theriault, Eric, DeepSeek A.I.
Language: English
Topic: Mental Health and Psychiatry
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204875341
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