From Error of Mind to Informational Integration: Toward an Information-Theoretic Paradigm of Psychotherapeutic Insight

This paper develops a unified theoretical model of psychotherapeutic insight that integrates three conceptual domains: (1) the Ayurvedic paradigm of disease as an “error of mind,” (2) a structural analysis of the process of understanding as the establishment of reflective distance between subject and mental content, and (3) an information-theoretic interpretation of psychotherapy as entropy reduction through dialogical exchange.

Moving beyond purely qualitative descriptions of therapeutic change, the paper proposes that psychotherapy can be understood as a structured process of informational integration in which insight represents the reorganization of the subject into a stable meta-position relative to cognitive and affective content. The model offers a transdisciplinary bridge between contemplative traditions, philosophy of mind, psychotherapy theory, and contemporary informational paradigms.