Gödelian Depression: Recursive Logic, Epistemic Closure, and the Boundaries of Therapeutic Framing
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
Published online on July 06, 2026
Abstract
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This paper offers a phenomenological and epistemic account of a particular configuration of depressive experience, conceptualized as Gödelian Depression. Such states are marked by internal coherence, recursive self-reinforcement, and epistemic closure: ...
This paper offers a phenomenological and epistemic account of a particular configuration of depressive experience, conceptualized as Gödelian Depression. Such states are marked by internal coherence, recursive self-reinforcement, and epistemic closure: ...