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Zenodo
2025
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17847526 |
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- <p dir="auto">This paper advances a unified developmental–neurocognitive account of epistemic trauma, conceptualising it as a distinct form of relational injury arising when a child’s epistemic agency—their capacity to perceive, interpret, and speak safely—is chronically constrained within the caregiving environment. Drawing on attachment theory, family-systems research, predictive-processing neuroscience, and cognitive-dissonance models, the paper situates epistemic trauma within the ρ–σ–ϕ framework of recognition deprivation, suppression, and fiduciary containment failure. These mechanisms generate surface behaviours—silence, tearlessness, hyper-attunement, and collapse—that are frequently misinterpreted as ASD, ADHD, selective mutism, or dissociative shutdown. By differentiating epistemic trauma from these conditions through contextuality, relational triggers, and the logic of epistemic exposure, the analysis clarifies its unique aetiology and developmental trajectory.</p> <p dir="auto">To support clinical practice, the paper introduces the <em>Epistemic Injury Checklist</em> (EIC), a triadic, formulation-oriented tool that provides a structured method for identifying recognition, suppression, and containment patterns underlying epistemic inhibition. The EIC offers clinicians, psychologists, and psychiatrists a practical framework for distinguishing epistemic trauma from neurodevelopmental or anxiety-based profiles and for designing interventions that restore epistemic safety, rebuild dissonance tolerance, and recalibrate predictive models. The conclusion outlines directions for validation studies, predictive-processing-based modelling, and longitudinal developmental protocols.</p>