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Abstract

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.