Dyadic Systems Series - DSS 0

This record provides the reader orientation, interpretive guardrails, and navigation map for the Dyadic Systems Series. The guide positions the dyad as a system-level analytic unit and clarifies the series’ central distinctions: calibration versus equality, asymmetry versus dysfunction, local versus global coherence, regulation versus adaptation, and structural explanation versus attributed intent. It explains why externally imposed fairness benchmarks, individual diagnosis, blame allocation, and therapeutic prescriptions fall outside the analytic licence of the framework. The document also maps the respective functions of DSS-I through DSS-VI, showing how the series develops from dyadic organisation and regulation to quantitative and qualitative operationalisation, cross-modal synthesis, empirical implementation, simulation, and validation. Separate reader orientations are provided for students, faculty, researchers, and clinicians. This record is not an empirical study or a substantive extension of the theoretical model. Its purpose is to make the series readable as a cumulative analytical architecture and to prevent category errors when its concepts are interpreted or applied. The three central reading rules are: 1. asymmetry is not inherently a failure state;2. calibration concerns shared structural mapping rather than equal role shares;3. intent and fairness narratives are treated as downstream interpretive overlays rather than primary explanatory causes.