Coping Trap

Cognitive rigidity and maladaptive behavioral patterns under prolonged stress represent a core challenge in clinical psychology and psychiatry. This book formalizes the Coping Trap – a pathological, self-stabilizing state in the cognitive system’s space, characterized by a regression from flexible, analytical to rigid, heuristic strategies. A novel interdisciplinary synthesis bridges the conceptual frameworks of the psychological school of intelligence and computational cognitive neuroscience.