Autonomic Mapping emerges within the depth-psychology corpus primarily through the polyvagal-informed clinical tradition, above all in Deb Dana’s systematisation of Stephen Porges’s neurophysiological framework for therapeutic practice. The term designates a structured clinical procedure by which therapist and client collaboratively chart the client’s individual experience across the three hierarchical states of the autonomic nervous system — ventral vagal safety, sympathetic mobilisation, and dorsal vagal shutdown — detailing body responses, beliefs, emotions, and behaviours associated with each. Dana argues that this cartographic work serves a dual hemispheric function: it first invites embodied, right-hemisphere attunement to physiological states, then recruits left-hemisphere language to anchor and articulate that somatic knowledge. The mapping sequence — comprising the Personal Profile Map, the Triggers and Glimmers Map, and the Regulating Resources Map — is positioned explicitly as the foundation of the initial treatment phase, providing both clinician and client with a shared autonomic vocabulary. What distinguishes this approach from purely psychoeducational techniques is the insistence that maps are living, dynamic instruments: clients carry them, revisit them, and ultimately internalise them as portable mental models for ongoing self-regulation and relational attunement. The body of literature outside the polyvagal tradition — Craig’s interoceptive neuroanatomy, Thompson’s enactive phenomenology — provides epistemological context for why such body-centred self-knowledge matters, but does not directly theorise autonomic mapping as a clinical method.