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I feel like you're using a rhetoric that is meant to portray a multifacted system to justify weird religious phenomenon, similar to how Scientologists view themselves over Thetan Counts. 

IFS_therapist said: 

parts,  we all have them  blablablaintroduction

 

these are some quotes from the founder of Internal Family Systems parts therapy,  Richard Schwart's book "No Bad Parts"  https://www.amazon.com/No-Bad-Parts-Restoring-Wholeness/dp/1683646681

 

these emotions, sensations, thoughts, impulses, and other things are emanations from parts—they are what we call trailheads. This is because when you focus on one, it’s as if you are starting out on a trail that will lead you to the part from which that thought, emotion, impulse, or sensation emanates. And, as you get to know that part, you will learn that it isn’t just that thought, sensation, impulse, or emotion. Indeed, it will let you know that it has a whole range of feelings and thoughts, and it can tell you about the role it is in and why it does what it does. Then it will feel seen by you and you can honor it.

That’s what I started to do with my clients in the early 1980s and an entirely new world opened up in the process of doing that. It reminded me of high school biology class when we looked in the microscope at a drop of pond water and were shocked to see all kinds of little paramecia, protozoa, and amoebas scurrying around in it. When we simply turn our attention inside, we find that what we thought were random thoughts and emotions comprise a buzzing inner community that has been interacting behind the scenes throughout our lives.

In this exercise you may have noticed that by simply focusing on one of your parts, you were separating (unblending) from it. In other words, suddenly there was a you who was observing and an it that was being observed. As I said in the introduction, you’ll find this type of separation in mindfulness practices, and it’s a great first step. Then you took the next step when you explored how you feel about it and noticed what other parts feel about it. When you feel angry or afraid of it, that wouldn’t be the Self, but other parts that are still blended with the Self.

 

 

 my autistic ass is confused reading this

It's weird shit the more it's looked into. 

I've been hearing about this method a LOT the last two years and the last two therapists ive had were really into it. I can sometimes see how it can be helpful for some people, but because one of my personal goals in therapy is to stop disassociating it really freaks me out honestly. 

Because anything to do with making for distance between things in my brain rather than connections doesnt sound good for me.

This is (objection) hearsay, but when i talked to my friend about it recently she said she has a friend who is a psychologist that when she asked about it said IFST should NEVER be used on children. Which makes complete sense to me because i can see it literally leading to DID if implemented as a tactic to process difficult emotions to someone younger than 8 years old. 

It also reminded me of tuplas. 

BUT, i can see it working for some people as a tool to understand when they are having multiple contradicting feelings and beliefs at the same time as many do. And to not hate "parts" of themselves that are destructive and to understand where those things come from. I just don't see why you cant say "There is a part of me that feels like an exile, and i think when i am hating myself its coming from that part of me." Rather than saying, "There is a part of my system that is an exile, and she feels the need to tell me i am bad before others do."

I mean that is straight up DID talk except delusional because there are no real alters.

doesnt usually work for me.

The one thing though that did work for me was the idea of "firefighters." Another thing im working on in therapy is self-destructive behavior, and the idea that the impulses i have for bad things are just Immediate Responders to a fire (a mental/emotion breakdown) makes sense to me. Like their job is to put out the fire, even if the method causes more damage afterward. I thought that was a neat way to look at it.

Empath said: 

 

It also reminded me of tuplas. 

I know right? It's no wonder Turquie ran right towards it. 

it caught the tree top but the monkey didn't let go.