An explorable taxonomy · 156 entries
Most maps of this field sort by topic and collapse, because one modality lands in four boxes. This one sorts by mechanism: which layer of the person a method works on. Lineage and everything else are filters, so the field's hidden family resemblances become things you can look up.
A sorting tool, not a recommendation
Each entry is scored on six things: reach, evidence, ceiling, speed of signal, ease of entry, and how little it asks of you. There's no single “best,” because that depends on the person, so pick a lens under Weight by to decide what counts. Heavier type on the maps means a higher score.
The substrate cluster wins nearly every lens (sleep, exercise, walking, close relationships). And a low score is not a verdict: something obscure, expensive or slow to show results scores low even if it works well.
Map one
Vertical: how deep the method reaches, from symbolic and top-down at the top to somatic and bottom-up at the bottom. Horizontal: how much of the work needs another person. Dot color is lineage; heavier type means a higher score under the current lens. The horizontal axis means far more in the bottom two rows than the top two.
Map two
Same records, sorted by descent. Read across a lane to watch a tradition develop, or down a column to see one era at once. The 1970s were the founding decade: est, NLP, Focusing, Inner Game, Goenka's Western courses and MBSR all arrived within ten years.
Across lineages
Techniques that recur across unrelated lineages; color shows how far apart they started. The sharpest answer to “why do these all feel the same?” Each record also lists what it pairs with, what it's redundant with, and what it builds on.
Where this came from
This atlas began as an academic taxonomy of named schools, then merged with christineist’s “Self-Healing Menu Platter”, a community sheet whose unit is different: not institutions but moves you can make tonight. Each is right about its own half.
The sheet added co-regulation as a mechanism (cuddling, eye gazing), ritual and imaginal work, expressive modes, sexuality as a practice, the depth-psychodynamic column, a detailed substrate row, and pairs well with: practitioner knowledge about combinations that no academic source records.
The atlas added lineage, era, evidence tier, commercial structure and failure modes. Filter by Source to see either half alone.
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