Photoshop CC rendering crazy color overlays in file

Photoshop is doing some insane things to a file we're working on, it's adding multi-colored, random blocks of color overlays all throughout the file. We'll close the file and reopen it, and it's fine. Then it starts doing it again! Has anyone else ever encountered this? The file size is aroud 470MB, on a 2013 Macbook Pro that has 8GB RAM/500GB hardrive, OS Mountain Lion. Attached is a screenshot. To me, it seems like the file may be corrupted somehow but PS not giving an error message.

If this is just the one file, then you may be right about it being corrupted.  At 470Mb I'm guessing that it has lots of layers, in which case I'd be looking carefully at blend modes, but that doesn't gel with it being intermittent.
Going just from the screen shot, I'd be wondering about video card driver, but you'd expect that to affect all files.
Sometimes Photoshop can get into a muddle with layered documents, and things don't work how they should.  I have always found that duplicating the layers to a new document fixes that.   Select all layers, right click and choose Duplicate and then New.
It's an interesting anomaly though, so please come back and tell us if and how you fix it.

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