Course: A non-pathological model of Neurodiversity
VERSION 2 IS NEAR COMPLETION - SPRING 2025
FREE EDUCATIONAL YOUTUBE CHANNEL TO FOLLOW - SUMMER 2025
What you’ll get
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A functional & visual model of normal spectrums of human diversity underlying neurodiverse diagnoses.
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A model of adaptive tradeoffs anticipates specific strengths are tied to specific mental health challenges, including clinical issues related to all manner of positions along the spectrums.
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“Normal neurodiversity” de-pathologizes “mental illness” more generally by building a vision of human diversity on evolved tradeoffs, instead locating distress and impairment relative to one’s proximity and access to a sustainable niche-of-fit.
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An integrative frame of neurodiversity includes ways of thinking about embodied mechanisms (genes & biology), goals & behavior, personality traits, values, moral differences, and ideal niches of meaning & purpose.
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Specific neurodiverse diagnoses are reframed and upacked as part of a general integrative psychological frame useful for all clients and individuals.
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A cutting edge research synthesis of multiple scientific fields based on “consilience,” the joining together of multiple lines of evidence for stronger conclusions.
What’s inside
Module 1
The case for a “quadrant model” begins by questioning the orthodoxy of a chemical imbalance. The evidence tells a different story, one of adaptive biological tradeoffs, and “fit or friction” in different culture environments.
Module 2
Evidence suggests that DSM-V diagnoses are fundamentally organized by their relationships to four broad “life history strategies,” creating a non-pathological architecture for neurodiversity. This can be used to frame evolved strengths at the group level, including evolved “purposes” based on the congruence of strategies and their “fit” to existing social roles and niches.
Module 3
Ten personality aspects can be organized into five personality traits; five traits can be mapped to two meta-traits. The personality trait hierarchy may turn on the strength and function of two goal systems in the brain that reference back to our earlier biological section. What can personality research this us about neurodiversity as normal, pre-conscious differences in embodied personality that shapes our goal-directed life strategies? What can this tell us about clinical issues and personality?
…Modules 4-6
Lots more content including the role of values, morality, complimentary cognition, integration, neurodiverse diagnoses, clinical directions and more!