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Looking back at this after a year, I think this needs a more refined approach than my first one. Cyberpsychosis comes from the concept that intentionally losing one's humanity is intended as a step to distance oneself from one's "inferior" fleshy brethren. This leads to three different interpretations in games, sort of inspired by different attitudes; the ...

TV Tropes covers the topic pretty well on the Cybernetics Eat Your Soul page. Competitive balance is called out as the primary rationale for cyberpsychosis, and it is pointed out that: It's also notable that this trope happened in few (if any) of the original Cyber Punk novels that inspired most of these games. And that: This trope usually ...