Mental Spatial Psychological Diagnosis (MSD-1)

The recognition that all mental processes are experienced and take shape in the space around the brain (including in the body excluding the brain) is the heart of mental space psychology. This idea includes automatically all types of mental problems, afflictions and disorders. The investigation of how such issues manifest themselves in mental space led to an additional diagnostic tool. Beside the symptom-based diagnosis of the DSM-5 and de ISD-11 now a clinician can explore how the client has the problematic concepts (emotions and cognitions) located in their mental space. This view provides direct insights on how things need to change in mental space in order to experience a healthier mind.
This project resulted in a compendium of mental spatial configurations that relate to a broad scale of mental issues. There is a compelling overlap with existing psychopathology, but it also shows how the mental space of the client will cause certain types of problematic experiences. And how solutions should appear in mental space.

The distribution of the book Mental Spatial Diagnosis goes exclusively over somsp.com resources/books/Mental Spatial Diagnosis. The book exists at this moment in 10 languages.

Instead of lists and summaries of symptoms, like in the DSM-5, mental spatial diagnosis demands 3-dimensional insights. To make such configurations usable for the clinician, a book with images was created.
An alternative way to look at psychological disorders and health. When all psychological phenomena are happening in mental space, this must also hold for psychological issues of all sorts. This will give a new direction to the psychotherapy of the future. Read more in our book Mental Spatial Diagnosis.