The Shape of What Remains

The world cannot tell you who you are. That privilege—that burden— dear reader, is yours and yours alone.

Dean Bowman writes from limina, documenting what remains when displacement becomes identity. Born in Japan during the Showa era to American parents, he exists as an emergent phenomenon—unrecognized by any single time, place, or culture.

This archive documents his work as a consulting analyst and writer. Some pieces emerge from encounters with those navigating threshold spaces. Others are fragments: observations, meditations, evidence of passage.

What you read here lives between memory and invention. Names change. Details transform. Chronology bends. What remains is what persists.

What You'll Find Here

Entries: Observations and fragments from the threshold spaces. The primary chronicle.

Cases: Investigations into patterns of grief, identity, and structures mistaken for fate.

Lexicon: Reference archive providing context for recurring concepts and frameworks.

Studies: Scholarly work on the art and science of Emotional Forensics.

Emotional Forensics

The investigative methodology underlying this work. Emotional Forensics is a transdisciplinary framework for examining Human Systems—individual and organizational—through three pillars: Archaeology (temporal analysis), Anthropology (cultural patterns), and Architecture (structural dynamics). Created by Dean Bowman in 2005, the framework continues to evolve through applied practice. The Cases published here demonstrate its application to real encounters, transformed for privacy and insight.

Submit a Case for Consideration

Some questions elude ordinary scrutiny. If reasoning has led you in circles, if what troubles you lacks proper shape—you may write.

Submit a personal case: A feeling you cannot escape. A pattern you cannot break. A grief you cannot name. A question about your life that resists resolution.

Submit a cultural artifact: A text, image, or discourse that troubled you in ways you cannot articulate. Something that feels significant but remains illegible.

theconsultinganalyst@pm.me

It need not be elegant. It need not be orderly. It need only be sincere.

By submitting, you grant permission for your case to be analyzed and potentially published. All cases are anonymized; details are transformed. Some appear here. Others remain private. All are handled with care.

This is investigation, not counsel.

For all the dear children of circumstance—may you find your way.