He describes these as three “catch-all” categories: our relationship to ourselves, to our environment/others, and to the material world.

From all the material I found, this is the most useful expanded map.

Several of those can be documented very directly.

Crone explicitly gives “I’m not enough, I’m not loved, I’m not valuable” as examples of inadequacy and “we’re not safe” as insecurity. He then describes scarcity as the sense that “there isn’t enough.”

In another discussion he names “I’m bad,” “I’m a loser,” “I’m worthless,” “I’m not attractive enough,” “I’m not young enough,” “I’m not successful enough,” “I’m not loved,” “I’m not wanted,” and particularly “I’m not going to be okay.”

And in a recent interview he says people can be subconsciously defined by “not enough,” “not special,” “not important,” or the sense that their needs don’t matter.

There is also a particularly revealing passage from his Mastermind material where a participant identifies “I’m not important” and “my needs don’t matter.” Crone explicitly calls “my needs don’t matter” a prison that the person had been living inside for decades.

The deeper hierarchy I see in Crone’s model

I don’t think all these sentences should be treated as twenty completely separate prisons. Many are different linguistic expressions of a smaller number of primal identities.

I would organize them this way:

1. INADEQUACY — “Something is wrong with me.”

This appears to be the largest family:

I am not enough.
I am not good enough.
There is something wrong with me.
I am not valuable.
I am not worthy.
I am worthless.
I am bad.
I am a failure.
I am a loser.
I am not special.

Crone makes an interesting distinction here. “I’m not good enough” is a negation: something is missing. “I am bad” is darker because it becomes a positive declaration of a negative identity: bad is what I am. He has described “I am bad” as the darker side of “I’m not good enough.”

That difference is important.

I am not good enough → I must improve/prove myself.

Whereas:

I am bad → I must hide myself / punish myself / perhaps give up on myself.

Crone associates the first more with perfectionism, people pleasing and striving, and the latter with potentially more destructive self-sabotaging patterns.

2. LOVE / ACCEPTANCE — “I am not loved as I am.”

Here I would put:

I am not loved.
I am not lovable.
I am not wanted.
I am not accepted.
I don’t belong.

Crone explicitly says that “I’m not loved” and “I’m not lovable” can be different wording for essentially the same phenomenon: I am not accepted for who I am. He then describes “I’m not wanted” as an even darker version of that wound.

So there is almost a progression:

I’m not loved
↓
I’m not lovable
↓
I’m not accepted as I am
↓
I’m not wanted
↓
I don’t belong

The recent School of Greatness conversation also explicitly includes “I don’t belong” as an identity statement to investigate.

3. SIGNIFICANCE — “I don’t matter.”

This family is especially interesting for therapeutic work:

I am not important.
I am not special.
My needs don’t matter.
I am not valuable.

These often produce very different behaviour from “I am bad.”

Someone living from:

“My needs don’t matter”

may become extremely helpful, self-sacrificing or capable, always taking care of everybody else while rarely asking for anything.

Crone’s Mastermind example is almost textbook: a woman experienced an emotionally unavailable father and formed a reality in which her needs did not matter; he then connected that identity with later relationships in which partners did not fully show up for her.

So outwardly she may look strong and independent, while inwardly the prison is:

“Nobody will really be there for me / my needs don’t matter.”

4. SECURITY — “I am not safe.”

Here I would include:

I am not safe.
I am not going to be okay.
The world is dangerous.
Something bad is going to happen.
I can’t trust life.

The first two are directly documented in Crone’s language. The last three are best understood as derivative expressions, not necessarily distinct official Crone prisons.

He describes insecurity fundamentally as a relationship with the environment: “we’re not safe.”

And in his recent conversation with Lewis Howes, he calls “I’m not going to be okay” a particularly big one.

That suggests a subtle distinction:

I am not safe = danger now / vulnerability.

I am not going to be okay = anticipated danger / inability to handle the future.

The latter naturally creates control.

5. POWER — “I have no agency.”

A further prison clearly appearing in Crone’s ecosystem is:

I am powerless.

One testimonial on Crone’s own Mastermind page specifically describes discovering “I am powerless” as the participant’s underlying way of being and experiencing liberation after seeing through it.

I’d therefore consider it strongly consistent with his framework, although I haven’t found him publicly saying, “Number X of my ten prisons is I am powerless.”

Related messages could be:

I have no choice.
I can’t change this.
Life happens to me.
Other people control what happens to me.

But I would label these as therapeutic derivatives, rather than verified names from Crone.

6. SCARCITY — “There isn’t enough.”

This one is explicit:

There isn’t enough.
There is never enough.
I don’t have enough.

Crone places scarcity alongside inadequacy and insecurity as one of the three fundamental human categories.

And notice the beautiful structural parallel:

I am not enough → scarcity of self.

I am not loved enough → scarcity of relationship.

I don’t have enough → scarcity of resources.

They are almost the same architecture expressed through different domains.

Then there are hundreds of surface versions

This is where Crone’s model becomes particularly useful.

He explicitly says “I’m not enough” can take forms such as:

I’m not pretty enough.
I’m not young enough.
I’m not old enough.
I’m not wealthy enough.
I’m not skinny enough.

Elsewhere:

I’m not attractive enough.
I’m not successful enough.

And he has explained that everybody will have their personal version: not smart enough, thin enough, young enough, etc.

These, however, are probably branches rather than roots.

For example:

“I’m not successful enough.”

Ask:

What would it mean about you if you never became successful?

→ I’m a failure.

And:

What would it mean if you were a failure?

→ I’m not good enough.

And perhaps deeper still:

→ There’s something wrong with me.

That’s very close to how Crone reverse-engineers the subconscious identity.

My reconstruction of Peter Crone’s “Prison Map”

If I were building a therapeutic model from everything I found—not claiming this is his unpublished official list of ten—I would reduce the material to approximately these 10 primal identity prisons:

Important: numbers 1–10 above are my synthesis of Crone’s publicly documented language, not a claim that I’ve uncovered Peter’s proprietary official ten-item list.

What I’m increasingly seeing in his teaching is an even simpler architecture underneath all ten:

THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS

AM I ENOUGH?
→ adequacy / worth

AM I LOVED?
→ love / acceptance / belonging

AM I SAFE?
→ security / control

IS THERE ENOUGH?
→ scarcity / survival

And perhaps beneath even those:

“Is it safe/acceptable for me simply to be who I am?”

That seems to sit extremely close to the heart of Crone’s entire approach. In one interview he explains that we begin compensating precisely because we experience that being ourselves is no longer enough, so we learn we need to behave in certain ways to retain love, support and security.

For your Primal work, I think the most valuable next step would be to take these 20+ messages and create a hierarchical “Prison Tree”: childhood event → primal conclusion → emotion → adaptive strategy → adult behaviour → suffering. That would allow us, for example, to distinguish “I am not enough” → perfectionism from “I am not important” → self-abandonment and “I am not safe” → control/hypervigilance.

To distinguish the root wound from the interpretation, identity, emotion, survival strategy, and eventual adult consequences.

THE PRISON TREE

The overall architecture would be:

EXPERIENCE / EVENT
↓
Meaning given to the event
↓
PRIMAL CONCLUSION ABOUT SELF OR LIFE
↓
Emotional state
↓
Protective / adaptive strategy
↓
Adult personality & behavior
↓
Repetitive life patterns
↓
Limitation → Suffering → Dysfunction

The crucial point is that the event itself isn’t the prison.

The prison is the meaning/conclusion the child—or later the adult—creates from the event.

🌳 THE HIERARCHICAL PRISON TREE

ROOT 1 — INADEQUACY

Core question: “Am I enough?”

Something is wrong with me

↓ branches into

I am not enough
I am not good enough
I am bad
I am defective
I am a failure
I am a loser
I am worthless
I am not valuable
I am not worthy
I am not special

↓ emotions

Shame • inadequacy • embarrassment • inferiority • guilt

↓ survival strategies

Perfectionism • achievement • proving • comparison • hiding weaknesses • excessive self-improvement • people pleasing • self-criticism

↓ adult pattern

“I have to become better in order to finally be enough.”

The tragedy of this prison is that success cannot permanently solve it.

The person can become successful precisely because they don’t feel enough—and every achievement provides only temporary relief.

ROOT 2 — LOVE / REJECTION

Core question: “Am I lovable?”

I am not loved

↓ deeper variants

I am not lovable
I am not accepted
I am not wanted
I don’t belong
People don’t really want me
If people really knew me, they wouldn’t love me

↓ emotions

Loneliness • rejection • sadness • shame • abandonment

↓ survival strategies

People pleasing • adapting yourself to others • avoiding conflict • becoming indispensable • seduction • seeking approval • emotional withdrawal

↓ adult pattern

“I have to be who you need me to be so that you won’t leave me.”

This creates an extraordinary paradox:

The person sacrifices authenticity to obtain love.

But then, even when loved, part of them thinks:

“They love the person I’m presenting—not the real me.”

So the strategy designed to obtain love can actually prevent the experience of being loved.

ROOT 3 — SIGNIFICANCE

Core question: “Do I matter?”

I am not important

↓

I don’t matter
My needs don’t matter
My feelings don’t matter
Nobody listens to me
Nobody sees me
Other people’s needs are more important than mine

↓ emotions

Insignificance • loneliness • resentment • sadness • invisibility

↓ survival strategies

Taking care of everyone • becoming useful • becoming indispensable • not asking for help • suppressing needs • excessive independence

↓ adult pattern

“If I am useful enough, perhaps I will matter.”

This can create the apparently strong, generous, independent person who secretly carries:

“Nobody is there for me.”

ROOT 4 — SAFETY

Core question: “Am I safe?”

I am not safe

↓

Something bad can happen
I won’t be okay
I can’t trust life
I can’t trust people
I have to protect myself
I must remain alert

↓ emotions

Fear • anxiety • vigilance • uncertainty

↓ survival strategies

Control • planning • worrying • anticipating problems • avoiding risk • hypervigilance • emotional defensiveness

↓ adult pattern

“If I can control everything, I’ll be safe.”

But control creates another paradox:

The more someone tries to guarantee certainty, the more sensitive they become to uncertainty.

ROOT 5 — ABANDONMENT

Core question: “Will you stay?”

People leave me

↓

I will be abandoned
People eventually disappear
I cannot depend on anyone
I will end up alone
Love doesn’t last

↓ emotions

Fear • grief • anxiety • loneliness

↓ strategies

Clinging • jealousy • testing relationships • controlling partners • choosing unavailable people • leaving first • emotional detachment

↓ adult pattern

“I need you—but needing you is dangerous.”

This can produce two apparently opposite personalities:

Anxious: “Please don’t leave me.”

or

Avoidant: “I don’t need anybody.”

But both can grow from the same underlying prison.

ROOT 6 — POWERLESSNESS

Core question: “Do I have a choice?”

I am powerless

↓

I have no choice
I can’t change things
Nobody listens to me
Other people decide my life
Life happens to me

↓ emotions

Helplessness • frustration • anger • resignation

↓ strategies

Submission • passivity • avoidance • rebellion • controlling others • victim identity

↓ adult pattern

“Things happen to me and I cannot do anything about them.”

Interestingly, control can also compensate for powerlessness.

Someone can become extremely dominant because underneath exists:

“I cannot allow myself to be powerless again.”

ROOT 7 — SCARCITY

Core question: “Is there enough?”

There isn’t enough

↓

There won’t be enough for me
I don’t have enough
I need more
I might lose what I have
Someone else getting something means less for me

↓ emotions

Fear • envy • anxiety • greed • deprivation

↓ strategies

Accumulating • competing • hoarding • overworking • difficulty giving • difficulty receiving • obsessing about money/resources

↓ adult pattern

“Once I have enough, then I’ll relax.”

But “enough” continually moves.

And I would add three particularly deep prisons

These overlap with the previous families but are therapeutically important enough that I would give them their own branches.

ROOT 8 — WORTHINESS

I am not worthy

↓

I don’t deserve love
I don’t deserve success
I don’t deserve abundance
I don’t deserve happiness

↓

guilt / shame

↓

self-sabotage

↓

“If life becomes too good, something feels wrong.”

ROOT 9 — DEFECTIVENESS / SHAME

This is subtly different from not enough.

Not enough says:

“I need to improve.”

Defectiveness says:

“Something is fundamentally wrong with me.”

And “I am bad” can be deeper still.

↓

hiding
secrecy
self-rejection
self-punishment
addictive/compulsive escape
difficulty receiving love

The protective message becomes:

“Don’t let anyone see who I really am.”

ROOT 10 — UNWORTHY OF EXISTENCE / BELONGING

At the deepest end of rejection:

I am not wanted

↓

I shouldn’t be here
There is no place for me
I don’t belong

↓

existential loneliness

↓

withdrawal / invisibility / excessive adaptation

↓

“I must earn my right to occupy space.”

Now the really interesting part

I wouldn’t ultimately represent the model as 10 independent trees.

I’d create four enormous root systems:

                         HUMAN SUFFERING
                              │
              ┌───────────────┼───────────────┐
              │               │               │
         INADEQUACY        INSECURITY       SCARCITY
              │               │               │
       "I am not enough"   "I'm not safe"   "Not enough"
              │
     ┌────────┼────────┐
     │        │        │
   WORTH    LOVE   SIGNIFICANCE
     │        │        │
"I'm not   "I'm not   "I don't
 worthy"   lovable"    matter"
     │        │        │
     └────────┴────────┘
              │
       PROTECTIVE STRATEGIES
              │
    ┌─────────┼──────────┐
    │         │          │
  CONTROL   PLEASE     PROVE
    │         │          │
  AVOID     ADAPT      ACHIEVE
    │         │          │
    └─────────┼──────────┘
              │
        ADULT PATTERNS
              │
        LIMITATION
              │
         SUFFERING
              │
        DYSFUNCTION

And underneath all of this I would place an even deeper distinction:

THE PRISON IS NOT THE EMOTION

Fear isn’t the prison.

Shame isn’t the prison.

Insecurity isn’t necessarily the prison.

They are often consequences of the prison.

For example:

Father leaves
↓
Child experiences pain
↓
“Why did he leave?”
↓
“Because I’m not important.” ← PRISON
↓
Sadness / insecurity
↓
“I won’t need anybody.” ← PROTECTIVE STRATEGY
↓
Hyper-independence
↓
Difficulty receiving support
↓
Partner feels unnecessary and withdraws
↓
“See? Nobody is really there for me.”
↓
The original prison appears to be confirmed.

That final feedback loop is fundamental.

THE SELF-CONFIRMING PRISON

So I would add one last stage to the model:

EVENT

→ INTERPRETATION

→ PRIMAL PRISON

→ EMOTION

→ PROTECTIVE STRATEGY

→ BEHAVIOR

→ REACTION FROM OTHERS

→ RESULT

→ “PROOF” THAT MY ORIGINAL BELIEF WAS TRUE

→ 🔁

That transforms the Prison Tree into something more powerful than a classification of limiting beliefs.

It becomes a model explaining how childhood meaning can unconsciously recreate itself in adult reality.

And the therapeutic doorway would therefore not simply be:

“Replace the negative belief with a positive belief.”

It would be:

EVENT ≠ MEANING

and ultimately:

“What happened may be true.
What I concluded about myself because it happened may not be.”

That, to me, is the most useful bridge between Crone’s framework and Primal/Constellation work.