Causal Psychology Toward a Constraint-Based Science of Mind

Psychology has long attempted to explain human behavior, emotion, and suffering throughperception, cognition, and motivation. While empirically productive, these approaches often neglect a more fundamental question: under what causal conditions can a mind operate at all? This work introduces Causal Psychology, a framework that treats psychologicalstates as emergent properties of systems operating under finite causal access, anatomicalconstraints, and temporal uncertainty. Rather than proposing new diagnoses or therapies,the framework repositions the mind as a predictive, resource-bounded system whose apparent failures often reflect environmental impossibility rather than individual deficiency