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A lot of people have discussed the balance over all, but I'd like to address a more connotative concern. Even if the class was balanced right now, you end up with some strange build up/choices.
Things like choosing a subconscious mind where you're reading the flavor and getting excited about the feature your about to get sour pretty quickly when you realize; "oh, I get a cool flavor from these, but no mechanical benefit and they have Huge downsides." Maybe that's necessary to balance out some big benefit elsewhere, but I would prefer if the benefits and negatives were placed together. It's not different as an end result, but it FEELS better.
Similarly you get your description for unleashing your psyche and you are thinking, awesome, free focus points. Then you see the unleash you get by default, and you just don't even want it. Maybe the downside is necessary because the free amping is too strong without it, so each unleash ends up looking like a net negative, but again, it FEELS bad.
I've never come across a class where I'm reading through a class feature wondering if I can just not take it. Can I just forgo a subconscious mind and not get a class ability boost? Can I unleash with just the free amp per round? It's a weird situation.