Christian Gajewski

Anticipatory scripting in high-masking autistic adults: a second-order compensation process and its implications for psychoanalytic therapeutic engagement

Background. Autistic scripting, the pre-generation of conversational content ahead of an anticipated social exchange, is a documented feature of autistic communication, situated within the broader literature on camouflaging and cognitive compensation. Whether the same preparatory...

Related Constructs and Theoretical Differentiation: Situating Epiphanesthesia in Existing Research

This paper introduces epiphanesthesia as a candidate third functional category of interoceptive content, distinct from physiological homeostatic signals and from emotional substrates. Epiphanesthesia is defined by three necessary criteria: the signal indexes structural convergenc...