Trauma & Attachment

Attachment styles are dynamic coherence manifolds — prototype, not prescription.

Rupture is not moral failure. It is manifold fracture under extreme constraint. Repair is not forgiveness. It is re-entrainment across the new geometry. Secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganised — these are attractor states in the coherence landscape, shaped by early prediction error and precision weighting.

This cluster holds the lived geometry: post-COVID family collapse, the moment the pronoun “I” broke, the terror and relief of unmasking at forty, the way a nervous system collects theories like others collect trauma.

The hydrogen atom already mapped the prototype — proton and electron in stable orbit. The free-energy translations described the minimisation. Here it is felt in bodies that remember rupture before language arrives.

New pieces on attachment, trauma, and repair appear below.