ABSTRACT
The scientific implications for health psychology of psychodynamic neurology and of protoconsciousness theory are profound and require a major restructuring of hypotheses about how human beings get to be who they are and the mishaps that they encounter along the way. Unfortunately, not enough is yet known about the genetics of consciousness control to allow the specification of physical mechanisms at this important level of analysis. But the epigenetic evidence is sufficiently robust to invalidate many popular assumptions that date from the early twentieth century and to suggest specific alternatives.
