Grateful to Tuula Kieseppä (Editor) and the reviewers for their insightful feedback, and deeply grateful to Lauri Parkkonen and Riitta Hari for their mentorship and support at @aalto.fi, and to Business Finland and the Norman Loveless Memorial Fund for supporting this work.

We highlight valuable work by many labs and researchers, including @leoschilbach.bsky.social, @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social, @introspection.bsky.social, @thomasinselmd, and many others, alongside previous work with Niclas (e.g., the ConNECT approach - frontiersin.org/journals/hum...).

We outline historical shifts between individual-centered and relational paradigms in psychiatry and neuroscience, introduce multi-person approaches to psychiatry and psychotherapy, and synthesize these developments into a relational framework for advancing mental health research.

We emphasize the central role of social interaction and intersubjectivity, and the need to rigorously measure real-life, dynamic exchanges, moving beyond single-person approaches.

Where we describe and integrate scientific developments highlighting the importance of adding a social lens to psychiatry and mental health.

allowing such views to pass uncritically. The core traps here with AI are what @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and I outline (based on our previous work) in a forthcoming short publication, distilled into the table below: bsky.app/profile/iris...