Field Week: How Reverse Causality Destroys Relationships

Last week, we explored how eating disorder treatment centers revealed a larger truth: the mental health industry, like much of society, often sustains dysfunction rather than healing it.

This week, we go deeper — into the hidden psychological mechanism that fractures most relationships beyond repair: Reverse Causality.

Reverse causality happens when someone injures the emotional field — and then pathologizes your reaction as the problem. It’s a primitive defense rooted in fear, shame, and the desperate avoidance of ego collapse. Whether inside treatment centers, marriages, or corporate systems, the pattern is the same: a rupture is created, a normal response is provoked, and the responder is blamed.

Drawing from clinical experiences working with borderline personality structures, Enrique explains how splitting, projective identification, and reverse causality work together to distort reality itself. The goal of Field Week is not just to recognize these dynamics — but to reclaim your sovereignty inside injured fields.

You cannot fix those who refuse to integrate. You can only recalibrate yourself.

Welcome to Field Week. Let's open it up.

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Enrique Arteaga - Chief Causality Officer - elevate.epo © 2025 APG, All Rights Reserved