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'Do you ever wonder if the best days are behind you?' Daniel Adelman had it all - friends, sports and holidays with family. Now everyone seems to be busy with marriage, work or have moved abroad, leaving him feeling lonely and ruminating on a better past. As he takes steps to spice up his monotonous routine, the 26-year-old Londoner questions whether his dwelling on the past is appropriate, or healthy, but the delight of revisiting memories proves ever-alluring in an unpredictable world.

What if psychology’s greatest problem is not lack of data—but lack of structure? Psychology: A Constraint-First Ontology offers a radical yet accessible rethinking of the human mind. Drawing on systems theory, neuroscience, trauma research, and philosophy of science, this book proposes a unifying framework in which mental life is understood as the dynamic stabilization of constraints. Rather than treating disorders as isolated pathologies or the mind as a hidden substance, this work reframes identity, emotion, trauma, and healing as structural processes of coherence, collapse, and repair.