Jeremy Griffith’s FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition attempts something much larger than an ordinary theory of personality or psychological disorder. Griffith proposes a biological explanation for what he regards as the central contradiction of human existence.
This paper introduces Organismic Binary Logic (OBL) as a proposed mathematical framework for systems in which an opposition is generated from a persisting origin.
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Psychological “flow states” are much easier to enter and sustain when the underlying organismic flow is relatively harmonious and supported.
Human intuition can be understood as a higher‑level, meaning‑rich readout of organismic dynamics, including interoceptive signals from the body.
The human organism informs awareness of its needs mainly through internal body signals (interoception) that the brain turns into feelings like hunger, thirst, pain, tiredness, or comfort. These “homeostatic feelings” act as messages about how the body is doing.
The human organism stays in organismic flow by constantly sensing what is going on inside and outside, comparing it to what is “safe or normal,”
Organismic flow is a way of talking about how a living organism functions as one whole, constantly changing process rather than as a collection of separate, static parts.
This article describes Carl Rogers’ person-centred therapeutic theory and looks at the factors for its success in modern therapy.
Although Rogers wrote mainly about the real self and ideal self, the terms independent self and interdependent self come from later “self‑construal” research in cultural psychology