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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich
Anyway, if the patient is suffering from a mental disorder, why should the report of multiple selves be taken as accurate reading of something going on inside the person? The report is valuable, and may lead to successful treatment, but we don't have to believe the literal interpretation of it.
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I'd be curious to know what the "literal interpretation" of a purely internal sensation is: when my uncle experienced phantom limb pain, was he "literally" having pain, or just having pain? Or was he not "literally" having pain, but just complaining of having pain?
Or perhaps he just had a mental disorder, and the doctors should have tried to fix that.
Grant Hutchison