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Mailbag Installment 23: The Absence of Center - Identity, Body Image, Panic, Decision Patterns
In this Mailbag Installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener's letter marked by a quiet instability. No collapse. No spectacle. A life that continues, yet feels unanchored.
The issue is not confusion. It is a lack of structure.
This conversation moves with precision through the underlying mechanics of identity fragmentation, drawing from neuroscience, decision theory, and lived behavioral patterns. It traces how the breakdown of interoception, explored in the work of Bud Craig at the Barrow Neurological Institute, can sever the felt sense of the body as…
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