Coping Trap

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Андрей Власов. Coping Trap

Coping Trap

Abstract

Formalizing the Disintegration of Mental Experience Structures in the Coping Trap: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis

1. A Harmonized Thesaurus for Interdisciplinary Synthesis

2. The Foundations of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Architecture of Coping

3. The Coping Trap: A Multi-Level Analysis of Cognitive Collapse

4. Neurobiological and Computational Foundations

5. Synthesis, Future Directions, and a Unified Framework for Interventions

References

Appendices

1. Appendix. Ontological Schema of the Meta-thesaurus

2. Appendix. Meta-thesaurus of Core Terms

3. Appendix. Case Studies Demonstrating the Coping Trap

4. APPENDIX. Visualization of the Attractor Landscape as “Mirror Mire”

5. Appendix. The Coping Trap Cascade

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Cognitive rigidity and maladaptive behavioral patterns under conditions of prolonged stress represent a core challenge in clinical psychology and psychiatry. This book introduces and formalizes the concept of the Coping Trap – a pathological, self-stabilizing state (attractor) in the cognitive system’s state space, characterized by a regression from flexible, analytical (System 2) to rigid, heuristic (System 1) strategies. A novel interdisciplinary synthesis that bridges the conceptual frameworks of the Russian psychological school of intelligence (Institute of Psychology, RAS) with Western computational cognitive neuroscience is hereby proposed. This synthesis provides a multi-level causal model of cognitive collapse, initiated by specific socio-cognitive stressors – namely, responsibility aversion and moral conviction. These triggers induce a metacognitive overload, leading to a cascading failure of voluntary intellectual control and a disintegration of the structures of “mental experience”. The model is grounded in neurobiological evidence, identifying a specific pattern of neural network dysfunction and a corresponding computational signature (an expanded “deferral threshold”). Finally, the Coping Trap is reframed within the predictive processing framework, with a unified intervention model being proposed. It is suggested that psychological therapies (e.g., mindfulness) reshape the attractor landscape, whereas neuromodulatory techniques (e.g., NIBS) provide the necessary energy to escape from the pathological state. This work offers a testable, clinically relevant framework for understanding and treating a transdiagnostic mechanism of cognitive dysfunction.

A fundamental challenge in any interdisciplinary research is the creation of a unified, coherent conceptual field that enables dialogue and synthesis between different scientific paradigms. This study, situated at the intersection of the USSR-Russian psychology of intelligence, as developed within the scientific school of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPRAS), and Western computational cognitive neuroscience, requires a particularly rigorous effort to harmonize its conceptual apparatus. This section lays the methodological foundation for the entire work, offering a system of definitions and conceptual mappings that serves as a “Rosetta Stone’ for translating and integrating ideas between these distinct theoretical languages.

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1.5. The Dynamics of Coping: From Psychological Trait to System Property

This section operationalizes the process of coping, linking the holistic concept of “coping intelligence” to measurable system properties and stability indicators.

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