Dick Schwartz
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June 19th, 2025
- in some sense, often a part really needs to be heard by the Self, but interpersonal conflict, sometimes it matters to someone to be heard by the other person... how do you see the relationship between those? if the one isn't always a substitute for the other?
- (huh, of course my hear yourself first move in 3 steps to empowered dialogue is absolutely related to this)
- you've mentioned that it's fractal—parts can have Selves, especially in folks with DID. presumably that extends upwards as well... so what do you see as Self on the group level? are you familiar with We-space practices like Circling?
- obviously there are complex family dynamics with entrenched longstanding patterns like you see in IFS, but what about in new groups of people?
- like there's an analogy made between parent-child and Self-part relationships, but obviously a group can be made of all adults or whatever
- (and sometimes probably an adult gets into Self to relate to their own parent who is in a traumatized part-blended state)
- applying the fractal up further, what do you feel you understand from your experience with IFS, about what's possible with large-scale governance or politics, that most people don't see? if you could convey one key idea to politicians or voters, what would it be? or if you could make one change to some law about how government operates?
- (tried having Claude generate a simulated interview about this, but it feels to me it slightly misses the point)
core principles of the NNTD
- Dick Schwartz's new IFS book is called No Bad Parts
February 16th, 2021
- like why hasn't he gone all the way?
- various hypotheses for this:
- he doesn't believe it's possible, somehow?
- like his implicit model of how how far you can go doesn't include that
- he thinks it would be bad
- eg that it's important to retain some amount of triggerableness to be more able to relate with his patients/clients/etc
- panic is probably for infants and IFS doesn't go back far enough
- this is where something like Ideal Parent Figure Protocol would be necessary
- or something else to get at ~18 month old attachment stuff
- this is probably my main hypothesis for what's going on
- which is fascinating when I consider I literally wouldn't have had this hypothesis a month ago - what else am I missing?
- was really helpful to hear Tim go through a whole IFS arc
- no individual pieces there were new, really, though some I'd forgotten about
- I don't think I've ever gotten through a full session