Psychic Arbitrage Profile Protocol (PAPP): Instrument Documentation, Version 0.9
Authors/Creators
- 1. Independent Clinical Psychology Practice, Bucharest, Romania
- 2. Bucharest Association for Psychoanalytic Counselling and Psychotherapy (ACPPB)
Description
The Psychic Arbitrage Profile Protocol (PAPP) is a dual-component clinical assessment instrument derived from the theoretical framework of psychic arbitrage (Niculescu, 2026). PAPP comprises a clinician-rated grid (PAPP-C, 28 items) and a patient self-report questionnaire (PAPP-S, 30 items), measuring five dimensions of psychic market functioning: market accessibility (D1-ACC), psychic liquidity (D2-LIQ), transactional repertoire (D3-REP), cumulative transaction cost (D4-COST), and residual arbitrage capacity (D5-RES). This document provides the complete instrument specification, including all items, scoring formulae, prototypical clinical profiles, the therapeutic decision matrix, ICD-11 and DSM multiaxial mappings, the psychometric validation plan, and a clinical use guide with a worked scoring example. Version 0.9: conceptual stage, psychometric properties not yet empirically tested.
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Related works
- Is supplement to
- Preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.18643048 (DOI)
- Is supplemented by
- Preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.18651744 (DOI)
Dates
- Created
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2026-02-15
References
- Niculescu, L. (2026). Psychic arbitrage: An economic model of psychic functioning. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18643048