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proto- In this context, proto- marks something as an early or preliminary form of a psychological function.

In this context, proto- marks something as an early or preliminary form of a psychological function. The article uses it in “proto-alpha mechanisms” to mean bodily self-soothing efforts that begin to organize experience when fuller psychic containment is not available.

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Drafting source: Sağlam Betul. Beyond diagnostic categories: sensory processing as a transdiagnostic mechanism in autism, ADHD, and PTSD – a neuropsychoanalytic conceptual analysis. 2026; DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1871344; article XML SHA-256 708ebc0289d9fd70b7f3803995cc9f3b3f236c095ccb500e2b11512dd2705b41. “Beyond diagnostic categories: sensory processing as a transdiagnostic mechanism in autism, ADHD, and PTSD – a neuropsychoanalytic conceptual analysis” (10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1871344).
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