A relational science of the living? Convergences between the Therapy of the Link and Relational Worlds and contemporary sciences of the living

The Therapy of the Link and Relational Worlds (TLMR), developed over more than four decades of clinical work on developmental psychotraumatology, proposes to think care and life from relation rather than from the isolated individual. This article confronts its conceptual architecture with contemporary work belonging to a science of the living: enactive cognitive science, the biology of autonomy, affective neuroscience and the physiology of the bond. From a corpus of 786 working documents, seven concept families are identified, confronted with the peer-reviewed literature and linked to the pivot concepts of the TLMR knowledge base. This version deepens the ontological position of the ground (structural and universal to the living, neither substantial nor primarily human) and the grammar of affect as human specification, then makes explicit the ethical side of the non-model (witnessing of the crossing, recognition versus adhesion) and first-person verification. In keeping with the "non-model" stance, the alignments are presented as indices of convergence, not proofs. The most robust convergences concern the primacy of relation, the autonomy of the living, and trauma as physiological freezing. English translation of Version 2 (July 2026); the 21 verified DOI references are retained.