To address persistent grief, there is a need to model the field of psychology as ‘one complete system’.
 

Currently, professional authors often only write about those diagnostic specialties in the field of psychology, for which they are an ‘expert’.
 

Some popular authors only use a “tools in the toolkit” approach which offers stand-alone ‘ad hoc’ ideas.
 

Many authors who write about psychology using the concept of a “system”, have no experience studying the models of complete, complex, physical systems.
 

For us to avoid reaching erroneous conclusions, the field of psychology should be seen as one complete system.
 

No system can correctly respond to changes (loss), unless there is a baseline of ‘normal’ as a reference. A model of a system that ignores some of the inputs to that system, can't build an accurate ‘normal’ baseline.
 

Our incomplete approach to psychology currently ignores one group of inputs to that system.
 

This group of inputs has been ignored, because an early history where “nothing happened”, is hard to model.
 

The early grief from child neglect is hard to model.
 

In the Doing Without series, we attempt to address this, so that grieving adults can reclaim the life path of truth, they never knew they lost.