Fundamental to the practice of system dynamics is the identification of feedback. The theory of linear model analysis and model simplification provide tools for doing this in the setting of linear state space models. The application of these tools in the field of system dynamics has been very limited primarily because the tools are inaccessible and difficult to use. Many of the, difficulties can be overcome by linking the analysis more closely with the original nonlinear model. We do this first by using time plots of model variables to describe behavior and second by deriving a nonlinear feedback model that can be used to exhibit the important feedback structure. The theory for doing this is heuristic, but allows the techniques to be automatically applied with interaction only in the domain of the original nonlinear model and its simulation.