Active inference and psychodynamics: a novel integration with applications to depression and stress disorders
Frontiers in Psychiatry August 19, 2025 Hebert W. Harris
This paper introduces Active Intersubjective Inference (AISI), a novel framework that integrates psychodynamic theory with predictive processing to explain self-identity construction and psychopathology. AISI posits that the self emerges from recursive inferences about how others perceive us (second-order self), interacting bidirectionally with interoceptive processes. We map psychodynamic...