Some research studies from psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, and philosophy regarding "our collapsed state."

· “Philosophy & Psychology
· Cognitive-Emotional Collapse: The Collapse of Judgement (Kim, 2025): Defines depression as a collapse of resonance in the psyche's meaning-making structure, suggesting a structural breakdown where one's own thoughts and actions feel hollow and disconnected.
· Socio-Psychological Collapse: On the Threshold of Social Erosion (Academia.edu, 2025): Analyzes how widespread anxiety, social alienation, and burnout are not just individual problems but structural and cultural symptoms of a quiet, progressive societal collapse.
· Psychoanalysis
· Collective Psychic Rupture: Lilian Strobl's Work (2025): Uses the Turkish earthquake as a case study to explore the destruction of shared fantasies of safety and state protection, focusing on the failure of the social "container" and the resulting collective regression.
· Psychic Life of Systems: Collapse Finance, Part 4 (Webster, 2026): Uses a psychoanalytic lens to critique how modern diagnostic systems and capitalism externalize suffering, revealing a society often in denial about the systemic nature of collapse.”