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Shrinktionary Term Web

The language of mental health, mapped.

Words don't exist alone. A symptom connects to a diagnosis. A diagnosis connects to a treatment. A treatment connects to medications, and on to the questions you'd ask a prescriber. The Term Web shows those connections so you can walk them, instead of looking up one word at a time.

Explore the map

Hover a node to light up its connections. Click to open it. Drag to rearrange, scroll or pinch to zoom.

  • Symptoms
  • Conditions
  • Medications
  • Therapy Terms
  • Psychiatry Terms
  • Psychology Terms
  • Brain and Body Terms
  • Everyday Language
  • Research Terms
  • Category hub
  • Network site

Guided pathways

Each chain is a real route through the network: a symptom leads to a diagnosis, a treatment, a medication, and on to care. Click any step to read it.

Trauma

Stress and the body

Brain chemistry

Why a web, not a list

Mental health rarely shows up one word at a time. Someone searching "panic attack" usually needs "fight-or-flight," "avoidance," and "exposure therapy" too, because those are the next questions. A list can't show that. A web can.

The Term Web is built from the same reviewed entries you'll find in the dictionary, wired together by the relationships a clinician would actually draw between them. It's how Shrinktionary turns a pile of definitions into a map you can navigate.

The concept graph

The Term Web is the part of the graph you can see.

Underneath the map is a graph. Every term on Shrinktionary carries a canonical ID, and the connections between terms are real edges, not decoration. The Term Web is the human view of that graph. There's also a machine view, and it's the same graph.

This matters for a reason that goes past Shrinktionary. Those IDs are the ones the rest of The Shrink Network reuses. When Shrinkopedia explains rumination, ShrinkDaily teaches it, and shrinQ gives you something to do about it, all three are pointing at the same concept, with the same ID, defined once here. That's what makes the network an ecosystem instead of a pile of separate sites, and it's why the language layer is the layer everything else hangs from.

Canonical IDs

Each term's slug is its ID across the whole network. Publish it once, reuse it everywhere.

See the concept graph →

One shared identity

Every network site declares the same reviewer and the same organization, so search engines and AI read them as one body of work rather than a dozen strangers.

How review works →

Readable by machines

The definitions, the IDs, and the connections are published in a form an AI assistant can read and cite directly.

Read llms.txt →

Put together, that's the knowledge graph behind The Shrink Network: one set of concepts, defined in plain English, reviewed by a board certified psychiatrist, and shared across every site in the family.

Your next step in The Shrink Network

You are here: Shrinktionary, the language layer of The Shrink Network.

Each site in the network has one job. No matter where you enter, we help you find the next step that makes sense.

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