ReviewEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Active Inference in Psychology and Psychiatry: Progress to Date?
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- Unveiling the Aha! moment: A computational account of insight in active inference.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Prediction, pain, and the power of context: toward a contemporary identity for the chiropractic profession.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2026Review
- Neural Reward Processing in Digital Addiction: A Dynamical Systems Theory of Reward Instability.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Active Inference and Functional Parametrisation: Differential Flatness and Smooth Random Realisation.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- ESMR: a process framework for calibration dynamics across psychosomatic and psychiatric phenomena.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Autonomic regulation constrains psychotherapeutic workability: a state-dependent translational model for psychotherapy and psychosomatics.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Disorder at the Synapse: How the Active Inference Framework Unifies Competing Perspectives on Depression.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Five Fristonian Formulae.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
The free energy principle is a formal theory of adaptive self-organising systems that emerged from statistical thermodynamics, machine learning and theoretical neuroscience and has since been translated into biologically plausible 'process theories' of cognition and behaviour, which fall under the banner of 'active inference'. Despite the promise this theory holds for theorising, research and practical applications in psychology and psychiatry, its impact on these disciplines has only now begun to bear fruit. The aim of this treatment is to consider the extent to which active inference has informed theoretical progress in psychology, before exploring its contributions to our understanding and treatment of psychopathology. Despite facing persistent translational obstacles, progress suggests that active inference has the potential to become a new paradigm that promises to unite psychology's subdisciplines, while readily incorporating the traditionally competing paradigms of evolutionary and developmental psychology. To date, however, progress towards this end has been slow. Meanwhile, the main outstanding question is whether this theory will make a positive difference through applications in clinical psychology, and its sister discipline of psychiatry.
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