06The Wright Model
An integrated systems map for seeing the visible concern in the context of the whole human being.
01The complete system
A symptom, performance block, or recurring behavior is an entry point, not the whole person. The model holds it within a larger system of purpose, body, mind, emotion, action, relationships, history, and context.
Everything interacts · Influence is multidirectional · Context is reciprocal · Capacity can change and constraints matter
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Begin at the top. Purpose, meaning, and values give the system direction: who the person is trying to be, what matters, and why the work is worth doing.
The four central domains are cognition, action and skill, physiology and regulation, and emotion, identity and pattern. They are not separate compartments. They continually shape one another. A change in sleep may alter attention; a relational pattern may constrain action; a belief may intensify physiology; repeated practice may change confidence and identity.
Embodied biology forms the foundation, while relationships, organizations, culture, resources, history, and environment act on the person and are also shaped through the person. At the center is adaptive capacity: the ability to adapt, learn, connect, and contribute as conditions change.
Psychological flexibility is one part of that capacity: staying in contact with present experience, adjusting behavior when needed, and acting in ways aligned with values rather than being governed entirely by avoidance or habit.
Work may start with sleep, attention, skill, behavior, a relationship, a symptom, or a recurring pattern. What matters is how that intervention changes capacity across the wider system.
Meaning-making and insight.
Attention, perception, beliefs, mental models, metacognition, decision-making, and perspective-taking shape how experience is interpreted. A person can understand exactly what to do and still lose access when attention narrows, threat changes meaning, or the gap between knowing and doing opens under pressure.
Behavioral expression.
Habits, communication, execution, practice, feedback, and behavioral repertoire translate capacity into effective action. The practical question is not whether the skill exists in practice, but whether it remains available when fatigue, uncertainty, evaluation, and consequence enter the moment.
Readiness and capacity.
The nervous system, arousal, sleep, recovery, energy, movement, nutrition, pain, and health shape and constrain what the system can access. A problem that presents as anxiety or inconsistency may begin with recovery, stress load, pain, energy availability, or a body operating beyond its current capacity.
Affect, identity, and relationship.
Emotion, attachment, self-concept, implicit memory, defenses, relational patterns, and regulation influence what is protected, repeated, or avoided. Perfectionism, over-preparation, conflict avoidance, or self-sabotage may reflect adaptations that were once protective but now organize the moment before conscious choice.
Identity and what matters most can orient the entire system.
The capability to adapt, learn, connect, contribute, and respond flexibly as conditions change.
Genetics, development, nervous system, health, temperament, and epigenetics influence and constrain every domain.
Relationships, organizations, culture, resources, environment, history, and systems both shape and are shaped by the person.
05Evidence and limits
The Wright Model organizes established domains of human functioning within Adam’s own synthesis. It is informed by biopsychosocial and systems thinking, sport psychology, exercise physiology, psychodynamic and relational practice, and embodied approaches to affect and regulation. It has not been independently validated as a diagnostic or outcome model.
Neuropsychoanalysis is used here as an interdisciplinary lens for thinking about affect, embodiment, and processes outside awareness. It is not proof that any single psychoanalytic account has been established by neuroscience.
06From map to practice
It helps locate where change may begin while preserving the larger structure: top-down and bottom-up influence, personal history, embodied state, relational context, purpose, and the coordination required for sustainable performance and well-being.
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