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migraine and beyond ... forms of mental "illness"?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 1:59pm.

The jagged edge images are quite familiar to me and, yes, I suspect are indeed a function of the cellular organization of the neocortex/story teller. But that's not so much the unconcious breaking through as it is the inner workings of the story teller itself becoming visible. Hmmm ... alright, there is an "unconscious" aspect of the story teller: its rules of operation (of which we are typically unaware).

And that in turn raises some interesting possibilities for thinking about "mental illness." One could have problems in the unconscious, in the story teller, and in the relation between them?

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