Psychomedia Just Launched — and Why It Might Change Everything

What happens when the abuser isn’t a person but a system?

Image generated using AI under the creative direction and composition of Mint Achanaiyakul.

© Mint Achanaiyakul — Founder of Crimson Cat Events & Psychomedia

Psychomedia is a new field built to study how media programs the nervous system over time. It merges psychology, linguistics, and media into one field, treating modern content not as entertainment alone, but as conditioning: repeated patterns that shape perception, emotion, and identity.

Psychomedia isn’t a theory. It’s a field. It exists because the existing language for reality broke — and because the nervous system is being trained every day by media patterns it never consented to rehearse.

The definition is simple: Psychomedia is the psychology of media, trauma, and control. The implications are not. When repetition becomes reflex, symbol becomes association, and narrative becomes belief, the nervous system stops asking, “Is this true?” and starts living as if it already is.

For decades, psychology treated suffering as internal. Media studies treated manipulation as external. Psychomedia puts them in one frame — because human experience has never been divided that way. The same neural systems that encode trauma, attachment, and a coherent sense of reality are constantly stimulated by screens.

Sometimes the abuser is not a person. It’s a system: a network of narratives that rewards blindness and punishes awareness. A loop that converts unhealed trauma into culture — and culture into control.

A deeper expansion of this system-level model will appear in When the Abuser Is Not a Person: The Psychology of Systemic Abuse and the Media That Keeps It Invisible†.

Psychomedia’s mission is simple to state and hard to live: to train perception to recognize conditioning while it is happening. To help creators build Neurologically Sustainable Entertainment™† — art and communication that heals instead of hijacks. To reclaim attention as a sacred resource in the war for the human mind.

Start here: Psychomedia. Then continue with The Field of Psychomedia and The Discipline of Psychomedia† once they’re live on the site.