About this project

 

The Trauma Phenotype Model did not emerge from a university or a research institute. It is the work of one curious mind — and an experiential expert at that — with a background in systems thinking, big data and AI. Someone who has spent years wondering about the same question: why has no next step been taken in how we think about trauma, or in researching trauma and its consequences?

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That outsider status is not concealed here; it is precisely why this model exists. Institutions rarely build something that dares to be “merely a beginning.” This project does. The model is deliberately simple, deliberately unfinished, and in places frankly arbitrary. Twenty-six letters, ten digits: not because reality divides itself that neatly, but because one has to start somewhere — and because a beginning that anyone can read is worth more than a perfection that never arrives.

 

This is a gift to science. But it is not yet a scientific gift. There is work to be done. It needs attention, care and criticism. That is why openness has been chosen: the model is open for discussion, its refinement takes place in public, and the data the tool collects is anonymised and placed under the stewardship of an independent foundation (currently being established) — not a company whose business model rests on personal histories.

 

What this project does not promise: a diagnosis, a truth, a finished system.
What it does promise: a serious attempt to take a step forward in how we think about trauma, with the aim of helping individuals and society relate more wisely to this strange phenomenon — and, through that, to one another.

 

Please join!

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Hajo J. Theunissen