IFS
Is it more helpful for you to view the “parts” of you as people,
Or as an ecology of people, animals, plants, whatever shows up?
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try both and see which one feels better
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Do you have any starting reading recommendations for IFS? I've read Scott's book review on the subject, but I'm not sure where to start and am a little of afraid of looking/winding up a little nuts. It sounds kinda close to deliberately splitting yourself.
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i think for the people who take well to it it feels more like discovering how split they already were. if you don’t feel drawn to it there are other alternatives. theoretically i like coherence therapy a lot but i’m not sure how well it’s suited to self-therapy
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Thanks! To me it feels like I reasonably could view myself as much more split, but I'm not sure if it's worth embracing that feeling
I agree on coherence therapy. My therapist had never even heard of it before I brought it up, and didn't seem too excited to learn.
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i think there's also a way of approaching IFS that doesn't make any kind of like hard ontological commitment about the nature of mind. sometimes i think of it as like patterns or drives or tendencies "borrowing a personhood interface" temporarily