?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+Global+Workspace+perspective+on+mental+disorders&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.description=Recent+developments+in+Global+Workspace+theory+suggest+that+human+consciousness+can+suffer+interpenetrating+dysfunctions+of+mutual+and+reciprocal+interaction+with+embedding+environments+which+will+have+early+onset+and+often+insidiously+staged+developmental+progression%2C+possibly+according+to+a+cancer+model.%0AA+simple+rate+distortion+argument+implies+that%2C+if+an+external+information+source+is+pathogenic%2C+then+sufficient+exposure+to+it+is+sure+to+write+a+sufficiently+accurate+image+of+it+on+mind+and+body+in+a+punctuated+manner+so+as+to+initiate+or+promote+simililarly+progressively+punctuated+developmental+disorder.%0AThere+can%2C+thus%2C+be+no+simple%2C+reductionist+brain+chemical+'bug+in+the+program'+whose+'fix'+can+fully+correct+the+problem.+On+the+contrary%2C+the+growth+of+an+individual+over+the+life+course%2C+and+the+inevitable+contact+with+a+toxic+physical%2C+social%2C+or+cultural+environment%2C+can+be+expected+to+initiate+developmental+problems+which+will+become+more+intrusive+over+time%2C+most+obviously+according+to+some+damage+accumulation+model%2C+but+likely+according+to+far+more+subtle%2C+highly+punctuated%2C+schemes+analogous+to+tumorigenesis.%0AThe+key+intervention%2C+at+the+population+level%2C+is+clearly+to+limit+such+exposures%2C+a+question+of+proper+environmental+sanitation%2C+in+a+large+sense%2C+a+matter+of+social+justice+which+has+long+been+understood+to+be+determined+almost+entirely+by+the+interactions+of+cultural+trajectory%2C+group+power+relations%2C+and+economic+structure%2C+with+public+policy.+Intervention+at+the+individual+level+appears+limited+to+triggering+or+extending+periods+of+remission%2C+as+is+the+case+with+most+cancers.%0A&rft.date=2005-11&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4622%2F1%2Fdisorders3.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick++(2005)+A+Global+Workspace+perspective+on+mental+disorders.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4622%2F