“Diagnostic and Mathematical Manual of Mental Disorders attempts to replace conventional psychiatry with a model rooted in orbital mechanics, arguing that the Three Body Problem explains the structure of human consciousness. It is a combative, unclassifiable work that will strike most readers as either visionary or unhinged — and possibly both.”
KEYWORDS: psychology, orbital mechanics, rocket science, psyche, mathematical psychology
328 pages 6x9 Trade book Available as a paperback, ebook, or PDF Read a 15-page preview at Blurb.com
The Orbit of a Troubled Mind
Clark’s Diagnostic and Mathematical Manual of Mental Disorders is an audacious provocation — or an elaborate category error, depending on one’s tolerance for unorthodox synthesis. The premise is arresting: that the Three Body Problem of celestial mechanics unlocks the architecture of Freud’s id, ego, and superego. Clark pursues this thesis with an engineer’s stubbornness and a polemicist’s fury, dismantling the DSM while indicting political correctness along the way. The mathematics is real; the psychological leap is enormous. Readers expecting clinical rigor will be confounded. Readers willing to inhabit a genuinely singular mind will find it, for better and worse, unforgettable.
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