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kompootor t1_j9w6mgz wrote

The premises, the part that you put in bold, are complete fantasy -- I just want to make sure everyone is aware of this in case they might think it's based on any kind of real literature. It's like when a sci-fi book opens with something like "The accepted phases of matter have been unchanged since Aristotle: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, aka quintessence. But what would if we discovered a fifth phase? What new future would it usher in for humanity?" or perhaps "The Maya warned us. Nostradamus warned us. Now, it's December 31, 2011 -- did anyone listen?" I'm serious -- it's pretty much at that level of sci-fi.

The most important thing to note is that from what you wrote there's complete misconception of all understanding of what mental illness is, even from as little as Freud understood. So bearing all that in mind, you basically have license to construct whatever model of psychology you want. Just remember that it'll be roughly the equivalent of the humours theory.

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