Ethics & Safety
Intended Use
The Captivity Lens Field Atlas is a research-facing companion to the Living Archive. It is designed for clinicians, researchers, survivor-scholars, clergy, advocates, and other careful field-facing readers.
The platform is educational, archival, and research-oriented.
It is not designed for crisis support, therapy delivery, diagnosis, coaching, or treatment.
Core Boundary
Build a container for the ontology. Do not reinterpret the ontology.
The system preserves original terminology, framework relationships, definitions, and authored language. Technology assists with organization and navigation; it must not become an interpretive layer.
Non-Diagnostic Status
This work is not a diagnostic tool.
It should not be used to:
- Label survivors
- Diagnose others
- Extract trauma content
- Flatten spiritual witness into clinical categories
Spiritual language should not be reduced to pathology.
Clinical language should not erase spiritual reality.
Audience
The intended audience includes clinicians, researchers, survivor-scholars, clergy, advocates, and field-facing readers who need navigable access to survivor-authored frameworks without requiring the archive to be consumed as a linear memoir.
Explicit Non-Scope
This atlas does not include:
- User accounts or profiles
- Quizzes, assessments, or diagnostic scoring
- Symptom checkers
- Survivor submissions
- Public comments, forums, or community features
- AI interpretation of survivor narratives
- Therapy functionality or clinical decision tools
- Chatbot interfaces
How to Read With Reverence
Read slowly.
Read carefully.
Read with respect for survivor witness.
Source Fidelity
When ambiguity exists, the author’s language is preserved rather than replaced. This container organizes and makes navigable a defined body of ontology — it does not generate authoritative meaning beyond supplied source material.