R. Holmes - the Pawn

PBC & PAN Theory PAWN → Map the system BOOMERANG (Conflict, Projection) Feedback Cycle → Spot repeating patterns COMPASS → Build autonomy and choice IMAGINARY ARMY → Understand invisible pressure PRESSURE SYSTEM → Fight, Flight, Freeze PEEKABOO RHYTHM → Recurring relationship cycles DEVELOPMENTAL ANALYSIS → Understand the past SYSTEMIC MAPPING → Understand the environment No labels. Only mechanisms. PBC & PAN was designed as a developmental and systemic framework that can be used before diagnosis, before labels, and ideally before problems become deeply ingrained. It can help identify patterns that may resemble certain diagnostic categories without reducing a person to a label. The purpose is not to replace existing diagnoses, but to provide additional context through developmental analysis and systemic mapping. This can be especially valuable for children and adolescents, where early labels may sometimes become part of identity formation. The focus is understanding development, relationships, environment, and pressure dynamics before conclusions are drawn.

One thing business taught me: “I’m radically honest” is a claim, not a guarantee. An honest message: do not trust me.

Across 49 studies involving 38,332 people, childhood maltreatment self-reports showed high stability over time nature.com/articles/s44220-0… In 2026, Psychiatry has 300+ labels for the individual, yet in 2026 still struggles to map childhood maltreatment and the environment.

Amazing. You can already understand the mechanism without the psychiatrist’s explanation.

A GP recently told me: “We can prescribe just as well as psychiatrists. They’re using trial and error too.” Well, if that’s the service on offer, let GPs do the tinkering. What exactly is psychiatry adding here?

Can millions of passive media viewers now confidently believe they are suffering from an innate “Highly Sensitive Person” deficit, conditioned by an unnamed professor’s relentless, repetitive online broadcasts, day after day? pantheory.group/2026/10/30/t…

There never was, and never is, “overdiagnosis.” Every person is communicating something. Behind every question, behind every discomfort, there is a story.

An interesting piece by Winnicott. He was right. By the way, NPD lies in the id field, failed ego mediation and fantasy defence involving the mother.

A parent, no stable self presents a radically different, behavioural persona to each of two children from infancy, cambridge.org/core/journals/… how academia distinguish innate biological vulnerability from divergent developmental responses to two distinct relational microenvironments?

All happens in the first years.

A fair point from this psychiatrist, avoiding medication, early support where possible, but sometimes it is necessary. Regular review matters, with gradual, supervised tapering when appropriate.

We need a shared, empirically tested framework for structured assessment and formulation before and alongside DSM-5/ICD-11 classification, one that examines development, relationships, environmental pressures and change over time.