Analytic biological psychology

In this paper biopsychosocial conceptualizations are combined with a mathematical approach in order to define stress as “a component of the vector need of recovery”. The organism’s ability to recover is defined as its recovery function, which depicts the inverted U-form of the Yerkes-Dodson law. The proposed definition of stress and the theoretical model that supports it offers a meta-theoretical structure that encompasses measurable and non-measurable connotations of stress. Additionally it explains the relation between stress and performance and applied should lead to better understanding of important issues in psychology and related areas. The structure – Recovery Theory – offers a set of principles of stress and psychology why it could be viewed as a macro psychology.