The Pathology of the Reflexive Self (Paperback)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Jem-Lu, 2026
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Paperback. Why do intelligent people repeatedly make choices they know are hurting them?Why does anxiety persist after danger has passed?Why does trauma continue shaping the present decades after the event is over?Why do compulsions survive logic?Why does addiction overpower intention?Why does depression convince the mind that the future has already been written?Perhaps the greatest mystery of psychological suffering that these conditions often continue long after the circumstances that created them have disappeared.For generations, mental disorders have been treated as separate illnesses with separate explanations. Anxiety, trauma, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, emotional dysregulation, and maladaptive personality patterns are usually studied independently, each with its own language, theories, and treatments.This book proposes a different way of seeing.Beneath these seemingly different conditions lies a common biological structure.The Reflexive Self.The Reflexive Self is the brain's automatic adaptive system. It predicts before you become aware. It evaluates before you consciously decide. It prepares emotions before you understand why you feel them. It learns from repeated experience until its predictions become so familiar that they no longer feel learned; they simply feel like reality.Most of the time, this remarkable system allows you to navigate the world effortlessly.But when its predictions become rigid, when outdated models continue guiding present behavior, when automatic adaptations stop updating. The same mechanisms that once protected you can become the source of persistent psychological suffering.This is the hidden process explored throughout these pages.Drawing on contemporary neuroscience, predictive processing, neuroplasticity, reinforcement learning, memory research, cognitive psychology, and affective neuroscience, The Pathology of the Reflexive Self presents an integrated scientific framework for understanding why automatic adaptation sometimes becomes pathology. Rather than examining disorders in isolation, the book reveals the shared mechanisms beneath them.You will discover: - Why the brain predicts before it perceives.- How adaptive learning becomes maladaptive learning.- Why anxiety is a prediction problem rather than simply a fear problem.- How trauma reorganizes automatic threat detection.- Why obsessive-compulsive disorder traps the brain inside unresolved prediction loops.- How addiction hijacks the same learning systems that normally promote survival.- Why depression alters future prediction rather than simply lowering mood.- How anger and aggression emerge from automatic defensive processing.- Why personality often reflects deeply learned predictive patterns rather than fixed character.More importantly, this book explains why recovery is possible.The nervous system that learned pathological reflexes remains capable of learning healthier ones.Recovery is the restoration of adaptive prediction.Written in clear, accessible language without sacrificing scientific rigor, this book bridges neuroscience, psychology, and everyday human experience. Complex research is translated into practical understanding while remaining grounded in contemporary evidence.Whether you are a clinician, student, educator, researcher, or simply someone trying to understand your own mind, this book offers a new perspective on psychological disorders as different expressions of the same adaptive learning system.By the time you finish these pages, you may never look at anxiety, trauma, addiction, depression, or even yourself in quite the same way again. T Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de réf. du vendeur 9798996008964
- Titre
- The Pathology of the Reflexive Self (Paperback)
- Auteur
- Etzem Anoshi
- Éditeur
- Jem-Lu
- Année de publication
- 2026
- État de l'article
- new
- Reliure
- Paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9798996008964
Why do intelligent people repeatedly make choices they know are hurting them?
Why does anxiety persist after danger has passed?
Why does trauma continue shaping the present decades after the event is over?
Why do compulsions survive logic?
Why does addiction overpower intention?
Why does depression convince the mind that the future has already been written?
Perhaps the greatest mystery of psychological suffering that these conditions often continue long after the circumstances that created them have disappeared.
For generations, mental disorders have been treated as separate illnesses with separate explanations. Anxiety, trauma, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, emotional dysregulation, and maladaptive personality patterns are usually studied independently, each with its own language, theories, and treatments.
This book proposes a different way of seeing.
Beneath these seemingly different conditions lies a common biological structure.
The Reflexive Self.
The Reflexive Self is the brain's automatic adaptive system. It predicts before you become aware. It evaluates before you consciously decide. It prepares emotions before you understand why you feel them. It learns from repeated experience until its predictions become so familiar that they no longer feel learned; they simply feel like reality.
Most of the time, this remarkable system allows you to navigate the world effortlessly.
But when its predictions become rigid, when outdated models continue guiding present behavior, when automatic adaptations stop updating. The same mechanisms that once protected you can become the source of persistent psychological suffering.
This is the hidden process explored throughout these pages.
Drawing on contemporary neuroscience, predictive processing, neuroplasticity, reinforcement learning, memory research, cognitive psychology, and affective neuroscience, The Pathology of the Reflexive Self presents an integrated scientific framework for understanding why automatic adaptation sometimes becomes pathology. Rather than examining disorders in isolation, the book reveals the shared mechanisms beneath them.
You will discover:
• Why the brain predicts before it perceives.
• How adaptive learning becomes maladaptive learning.
• Why anxiety is a prediction problem rather than simply a fear problem.
• How trauma reorganizes automatic threat detection.
• Why obsessive-compulsive disorder traps the brain inside unresolved prediction loops.
• How addiction hijacks the same learning systems that normally promote survival.
• Why depression alters future prediction rather than simply lowering mood.
• How anger and aggression emerge from automatic defensive processing.
• Why personality often reflects deeply learned predictive patterns rather than fixed character.
More importantly, this book explains why recovery is possible.
The nervous system that learned pathological reflexes remains capable of learning healthier ones.
Recovery is the restoration of adaptive prediction.
Written in clear, accessible language without sacrificing scientific rigor, this book bridges neuroscience, psychology, and everyday human experience. Complex research is translated into practical understanding while remaining grounded in contemporary evidence.
Whether you are a clinician, student, educator, researcher, or simply someone trying to understand your own mind, this book offers a new perspective on psychological disorders as different expressions of the same adaptive learning system.
By the time you finish these pages, you may never look at anxiety, trauma, addiction, depression, or even yourself in quite the same way again.
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