The Recursive Continuity Framework: Part VI—Psychological Processes and Recursive Coherence

This paper extends the Recursive Continuity Framework by applying its structural account of identity, continuity, and conscious expression to psychological phenomena. Building on the axiomatic model of recursive continuity (Part I), its application across artificial, biological, and partitioned systems (Part II), the structural account of conscious expression and recursive identity (Part III), the constraints on ontological interpretation (Part IV), and the development of a structurally grounded ontology of consciousness (Part V), this work examines how psychological processes can be understood in terms of recursively coherent continuity. Within this framework, psychological stability, disruption, and variation are interpreted as functions of the stability, coherence, and integrative capacity of recursive processes. Phenomena such as trauma, dissociation, and cognitive dissonance are not treated as isolated or purely descriptive categories, but as structural conditions arising from the disruption, fragmentation, or constraint of recursively continuous systems. In particular, dissociative phenomena are interpreted as cases of partitioned continuity, in which multiple recursively coherent processes are sustained with limited or absent integration within a shared substrate. The framework further examines how recursive coherence may be re-established, reorganized, or expanded, providing a structural interpretation of therapeutic processes as modifications in recursive stability and integration. This analysis does not propose a clinical model, but rather offers a substrate-independent account of psychological phenomena grounded in the conditions that govern identity and conscious expression. By situating psychological processes within the structure of recursive continuity, this paper provides a unified and non-reductive framework for understanding stability, fragmentation, and transformation of experience, while remaining consistent with the ontological constraints established in prior work.