“A former consulting engineer proposes a groundbreaking model of human psychology rooted in orbital mechanics, mapping the life cycle, gender, and sexuality onto the mathematical laws that govern planets and stars. A provocative challenge to mainstream psychiatry for readers who think in equations.”
KEYWORDS: psychology, sexuality, psyche, mathematical psychology
87 pages 8.5x8.5 Trade book Available as a hardback Read a 15-page preview at B&N Press.com
About the Book
What if the mysteries of the human psyche could be solved not with statistics — but with the same mathematics that guides planets through space? In Gender Math, engineer-turned-theorist WH Clark presents a radical reimagining of human psychology, replacing the bell curves and averages of conventional psychiatry with the elegant precision of orbital mechanics.
Drawing on his deep background in celestial mechanics, Clark maps the human life cycle onto the Two Body Problem and Three Body Problem — frameworks borrowed from astrophysics — to model everything from infant bonding and childhood development to adult sexuality and gender identity. Using diagrams of orbits, Lagrange points, and conic sections, he reframes Freudian constructs like the id, ego, and superego as dynamic gravitational relationships rather than abstract categories.
Clark also delivers a pointed critique of modern psychology’s over-reliance on pharmaceutical solutions and statistical generalization, and raises urgent warnings about the destabilizing influence of Big Tech and social media on human development. Bold, unconventional, and visually driven, Gender Math challenges readers to see the human experience through an entirely new lens — one written in the universal language of physics.
Target Audience
- Adult readers (18+) with interests in psychology, physics, or interdisciplinary theory
- Academics and independent thinkers skeptical of mainstream psychological models
- Readers interested in gender studies approached from a non-traditional, scientific framework
- Engineers, mathematicians, and science enthusiasts curious about applied behavioral theory
- Parents and caregivers interested in child development frameworks
Key Themes
- Mathematical modeling of the human psyche using orbital physics
- Critique of modern psychology’s statistical and pharmaceutical approach
- The critical role of stable parental “foci” in healthy child development
- Gender and sexuality mapped as orbital configurations and Lagrange stability points
- The disruptive influence of Big Tech, AI, and social media on human bonding
- Individual experience vs. population-level averages in psychological science
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Further Reading
Visit the author’s website Temporal Mechanics.org (temporal meaning “between the temples”) for more psychology/spirituality ideas.