{"id":814663,"date":"2026-05-22T17:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=814663"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:22:01","slug":"scott-flagg-phd-psychologist-consciousness-researcher-and-founder-of-built-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/scott-flagg-phd-psychologist-consciousness-researcher-and-founder-of-built-with-love_814663.html","title":{"rendered":"Scott Flagg, PhD: Psychologist, Consciousness Researcher, and Founder of Built With Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scott Flagg, PhD, known professionally as Dr. Flagg, is an American psychologist, author, inventor, and consciousness researcher. He is the founder of Built With Love, a multidisciplinary company focused on psychology, invention, and systems development aimed at addressing fundamental human and societal problems. Through his clinical work, research, writing, and inventions, Dr. Flagg has developed a body of work centered on personal and societal transformation, the nature of reality, and the ways intelligent life may develop across the cosmos.<\/p>\n

As a practicing psychologist, Dr. Flagg focuses on how individuals relate to emotion, thought, identity, and experience itself. His clinical approach emphasizes self-awareness and developing a skillful relationship with experience rather than simply managing symptoms. Through both his therapy work and public writing, Dr. Flagg has developed patented and novel models exploring how life functions at fundamental levels and the deeper patterns shaping behavior so it can be approached with greater clarity, maturity, and internal direction.<\/p>\n

Creator of REAL Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Flagg is the creator of REAL Psychology, a psychological framework centered on Rationality, Emotional Awareness, Analysis, and Liberation that is regarded by many as one of the most integrated models of human functioning. Developed through years of clinical work and research, REAL Psychology combines psychology, mindfulness, behavioral science, and evolutionary process into a practical system designed to help humanity move beyond reactive living and toward greater awareness, intentionality, and purpose.<\/p>\n

Much of this work also connects to Dr. Flagg’s Foundational Drive Structure, a theoretical model proposing that human behavior emerges primarily through the drives of awareness: connection, understanding, and assertion. According to Dr. Flagg, these drives influence identity, motivation, emotion, relationships, and personality development throughout life. These ideas are explored extensively in his book REAL Psychology.<\/p>\n

Consciousness Research and Xenopsychology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alongside his psychological work, Dr. Flagg has spent years researching and lecturing on consciousness, mindfulness, anomalous experience, parapsychology, UAP and UFO phenomena, and the reality of nonhuman intelligence. His research examines how different evolutionary conditions throughout the universe could shape radically different forms of consciousness, communication, identity, and social organization.<\/p>\n

These themes are explored in Xenopsychology: Deciphering the Minds of the Cosmos, where Dr. Flagg investigates the possible psychological structures of extraterrestrial intelligence and the broader implications of diverse life across the cosmos. His background also includes work connected to consciousness research organizations, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research program, and serving as a former director of the American Institute of Parapsychology. Dr. Flagg’s work and research have also been featured across television, film, and print media, including Discovery Channel, A&E, World of the Paranormal, Better Homes and Gardens, and the French documentary film Ghosts.<\/p>\n

Built With Love and Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through Built With Love, Dr. Flagg’s work extends beyond psychology into invention, systems thinking, and human development. He holds patents involving organizational frameworks centered on human functioning and societal transformation, musical instrument design, and chromatic tuning display systems. Earlier in his career, Dr. Flagg founded and operated LockOn Inc., a company focused on technologically advanced musical products and design concepts. His work reflects an ongoing interest in how psychology, technology, creativity, and consciousness intersect in shaping the future direction of intelligent life.<\/p>\n

Publications and Online Presence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Flagg maintains an active online presence where he discusses psychology, mindfulness, consciousness, identity, emotional development, UAP and UFO phenomena, and the future of intelligent life. His work can be found at DrFlagg.com<\/a> and on the Flagg Psychology YouTube Channel<\/a>. His books, including REAL Psychology and Xenopsychology: Deciphering the Minds of the Cosmos, are available through the Dr. Scott Flagg Amazon Author Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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