Research Library

Sources, connections and claim boundaries.

A searchable portal connecting papers, books, themes, DOIs, lectures and novel constructs—with a summary of what each source actually supports.

This is a curated working library, not a complete systematic review. DOI links resolve to the publisher or index record.

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25 research anchors

2016review

Neurobiology of addiction: A neurocircuitry analysis

Koob, G. F. & Volkow, N. D. · The Lancet Psychiatry, 3(8), 760–773

A three-stage account of binge/intoxication, withdrawal/negative affect and preoccupation/anticipation that anchors the addiction arc without reducing recovery to circuitry alone.

Lectures32 38 40 DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(16)00104-8 ↗

2016review

Neurobiologic advances from the brain disease model of addiction

Volkow, N. D., Koob, G. F. & McLellan, A. T. · New England Journal of Medicine, 374, 363–371

A major synthesis of reward, stress and executive-control changes. Flow Hijacked uses it as one layer of the field, not a total description of the person.

Lectures25 32 40 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1511480 ↗

2014paper

Relative efficacy of mindfulness-based relapse prevention, standard relapse prevention, and treatment as usual

Bowen, S., Witkiewitz, K., Clifasefi, S. L. et al. · JAMA Psychiatry, 71(5), 547–556

A randomized trial comparing maintenance approaches. It supports learning to contact difficult states earlier while keeping claims tied to the studied intervention and population.

Lectures35 38 39 DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.4546 ↗

2008review

The incentive sensitization theory of addiction: Some current issues

Robinson, T. E. & Berridge, K. C. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363, 3137–3146

Distinguishes sensitized wanting from pleasure. This helps explain why an old route can regain force even when a person no longer endorses or enjoys it.

Lectures32 34 38 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0093 ↗

2016review

Drug addiction: Updating actions to habits to compulsions ten years on

Everitt, B. J. & Robbins, T. W. · Annual Review of Psychology, 67, 23–50

Tracks shifts from goal-directed action toward habitual and compulsive control, while leaving room for heterogeneity and multiple routes into persistent use.

Lectures30 32 33 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-122414-033457 ↗

2010review

The free-energy principle: A unified brain theory?

Friston, K. · Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 127–138

A broad account of perception and action through generative models and prediction. The project treats it as a powerful theoretical framework, not settled proof of every psychological claim.

Lectures24 27 30 42 DOI: 10.1038/nrn2787 ↗

2013paper

Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science

Clark, A. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(3), 181–204

Places prediction inside an embodied, situated agent. It supports the project’s insistence that brain, body and world cannot be cleanly separated in a living trajectory.

Lectures27 28 30 42 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X12000477 ↗

2009paper

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

Scheffer, M., Bascompte, J., Brock, W. A. et al. · Nature, 461, 53–59

Shows why slowing recovery and rising variability can precede regime shifts in complex systems. Clinical transfer remains a hypothesis requiring direct validation.

Lectures23 31 35 38 DOI: 10.1038/nature08227 ↗

2014paper

Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression

van de Leemput, I. A., Wichers, M., Cramer, A. O. J. et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(1), 87–92

Connects dynamical early-warning ideas with intensive mood data. It is an important bridge, but not a validated relapse detector for an individual person.

Lectures31 38 40 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312114110 ↗

1993paper

Hydrodynamic stability without eigenvalues

Trefethen, L. N., Trefethen, A. E., Reddy, S. C. & Driscoll, T. A. · Science, 261(5121), 578–584

The mathematical anchor for large transient amplification in systems that appear asymptotically stable. Human use on this site is an explicit analogy and research scaffold.

Lectures23 25 31 35 38 DOI: 10.1126/science.261.5121.578 ↗

2000paper

The what and why of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior

Deci, E. L. & Ryan, R. M. · Psychological Inquiry, 11(4), 227–268

A foundational account of autonomy, competence and relatedness. These needs help describe why a technically abstinent life may still remain motivationally narrow.

Lectures34 35 37 41 DOI: 10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_01 ↗

1989paper

Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being

Ryff, C. D. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57(6), 1069–1081

Moves wellbeing beyond momentary happiness toward purpose, growth, autonomy, relationships and environmental mastery—useful coordinates for a wider life.

Lectures35 36 41 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.57.6.1069 ↗

2015review

Social Baseline Theory: The social regulation of risk and effort

Coan, J. A. & Sbarra, D. A. · Current Opinion in Psychology, 1, 87–91

Treats reliable social proximity as part of the expected energetic baseline. It supports belonging as a control resource without claiming that relationships erase risk.

Lectures28 35 37 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2014.12.021 ↗

2016paper

Overcoming alcohol and other drug addiction as a process of social identity transition

Best, D., Beckwith, M., Haslam, C. et al. · Addiction Research & Theory, 24(2), 111–123

Frames recovery partly as movement between social identities and groups. The field changes when sober belonging becomes credible, enacted and reinforced.

Lectures33 35 37 39 DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2015.1075980 ↗

2021review

Psychiatric illnesses as disorders of network dynamics

Durstewitz, D., Huys, Q. J. M. & Koppe, G. · Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 6(9), 865–876

A bridge from psychiatric phenomena to network dynamics and state transitions. It supports dynamical formulation while preserving the gap between model and clinical instrument.

Lectures24 25 29 31 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2020.01.004 ↗

1980book

Existential Psychotherapy

Yalom, I. D. · Basic Books

The principal clinical lineage for mortality, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness in Lecture 36.

Lectures36

2006book

Man’s Search for Meaning

Frankl, V. E. · Beacon Press; original work published 1946

A foundational human account of meaning and responsibility under constraint. The site avoids turning it into the claim that suffering is automatically meaningful.

Lectures36 41 42

1976book

To Have or To Be?

Fromm, E. · Harper & Row

The humanistic anchor for the shift from possessing relief, identity or achievement toward participating in life.

Lectures34 35 36

2015book

DBT Skills Training Manual, second edition

Linehan, M. M. · Guilford Press

A practical skills lineage for remaining in contact with reality under high emotional load. It is represented as a treatment tradition, not a self-administered substitute for care.

Lectures29 35 36 38

2013review

Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self

Seth, A. K. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(11), 565–573

A predictive-processing account linking interoceptive inference to emotion and embodied selfhood. It supports one influential model of experience, not a settled solution to consciousness.

Lectures24 27 29 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.09.007 ↗

2005paper

Breakdown of cortical effective connectivity during sleep

Massimini, M., Ferrarelli, F., Huber, R. et al. · Science, 309(5744), 2228–2232

TMS–EEG showed that a cortical perturbation becomes local and stereotyped during non-REM sleep compared with wakefulness. It is part of the empirical lineage behind perturb-and-record approaches to conscious state.

Lectures26 DOI: 10.1126/science.1117256 ↗

2013paper

A theoretically based index of consciousness independent of sensory processing and behavior

Casali, A. G., Gosseries, O., Rosanova, M. et al. · Science Translational Medicine, 5(198), 198ra105

Introduces the Perturbational Complexity Index from the compressibility of TMS-evoked EEG responses. PCI distinguishes studied conscious and unconscious conditions; it is not a complete theory or measure of a person’s inner richness.

Lectures26 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3006294 ↗

2019paper

The future of intervention science: Process-based therapy

Hofmann, S. G. & Hayes, S. C. · Clinical Psychological Science, 7(1), 37–50

A foundational process-based account arguing for testable change processes and idiographic functional models rather than protocol labels alone. It supports process and route comparison without validating Flow Hijacked’s TVFR proposal itself.

Lectures29 DOI: 10.1177/2167702618772296 ↗

2018review

The alliance in adult psychotherapy: A meta-analytic synthesis

Flückiger, C., Del Re, A. C., Wampold, B. E. & Horvath, A. O. · Psychotherapy, 55(4), 316–340

A large meta-analysis finding a robust association between therapeutic alliance and psychotherapy outcome across approaches and settings. It makes alliance clinically consequential without establishing that alliance alone causes every outcome.

Lectures29 DOI: 10.1037/pst0000172 ↗

2014review

Maximizing exposure therapy: An inhibitory learning approach

Craske, M. G., Treanor, M., Conway, C. C., Zbozinek, T. & Vervliet, B. · Behaviour Research and Therapy, 58, 10–23

Translates inhibitory-learning research into exposure strategies centered on expectancy violation, variability, retrieval and generalization. It directly supports controlled perturbation in exposure-based work without generalizing that mechanism to every psychotherapy.

Lectures29 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2014.04.006 ↗