Research
This page gathers papers, essays, conceptual writings, and developing frameworks from across my wider body of work.
Some pieces are formal publications hosted on platforms such as Zenodo; others are exploratory or in-progress texts that contribute to the wider research field.
Featured Research
A growing archive of papers, essays, conceptual writings, and developing frameworks drawn from across my wider body of work.
What Is Field-Based Psychology?
Most psychology asks what’s wrong with a person. Field-based psychology asks a prior question: what field is this person standing in? A short explainer on why that shift changes where you look for both cause and repair.
What Is Coherence?
Coherence is more than order, calm, or control. It is alignment within complexity: the living integration of patterns, rhythms, and relationships that allows systems, people, and environments to function with greater clarity, resilience, and harmony.
Psycho-Thermodynamics: A New Conceptual Paper on Load, Rhythm, and Coherence in Human Systems
A new conceptual paper exploring psycho-thermodynamics as a functional framework for understanding load, rhythm, phase, and coherence in human systems.
The Coherence Cycle: A Cross-Scale Process Model of Stabilisation, Destabilisation, and Reorganisation in Human Systems
This paper introduces the Coherence Cycle as a practical process model for understanding how human systems move through coherence, decoherence, and recoherence across personal, relational, organisational, and wider systemic contexts. It argues that disruption is not always failure, but may instead be part of how living systems reorganise. Drawing on dynamical systems theory, allostatic load, predictive processing, process-based therapy, and adaptive-cycle thinking, the paper offers a phase-sensitive framework aimed at real-world use.
Measurement Without Reductionism: A New Paper on Coherence in Human Systems
This paper explores how coherence can be observed and worked with in human systems without reducing it to a single metric. It introduces a non-reductive framework that treats coherence as a patterned condition across multiple domains, understood through phase, scale, and context rather than static measurement.
New Conceptual Paper: Psycho-Thermodynamic Transfer Mechanics
A new conceptual paper by Carl Langley introducing psycho-thermodynamic transfer mechanics: a transfer-and-circuit lens for understanding conduction, convection, induction, stored charge, resistance, coherence, and reorganisation in living systems.
External Archives
Zenodo Archive
Alongside the on-site research archive, selected writings are also published through Zenodo as part of the wider publication record. This includes papers, concept notes, and other developing research outputs connected to field-based psychology, coherence, consciousness, and related areas of inquiry.
Other External Archives
As work is published through additional platforms and archives, they will be listed here. This section is intended to reflect the wider publication footprint of the research as it develops over time.