partswork doesn't require reifying or naming parts
- In IFS/Internal Family Systems, the parts are given names and seem to have fairly stable identities at least until some transformation occurs.
- With other approaches to partswork, the parts can be a lot more nebulous or evolving or undefined.
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- ITD case study 1
- fragments from blog post draft
- PCT
- So: going up to the higher levels enables us to resolve these simple conflicts, and we do this naturally in areas where we don't have some sort of tangle (I'll get to tangles in a sec). If I'm not sure whether to
- Sometimes though we have things we are conflicted about not just temporally but in some sense part of us thinks it would be actively bad to do the thing the other part wants at any time, in any way.
- Method of Levels
- PCT has a therapy methodology, that doesn't at all involve looking at "parts" per se, but is all about going up a level.
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- blurghh this is too much to squeeze into this post
- Less-obviously, the reverse is true as well: if you're in a conflict that seems unsolvable, that means you're not seeing all the parts.
- HUHHHH THIS IS MAYBE SYNONYMOUS WITH THE SENSE IN WHICH ALL PARTS TRUST SELF BY-DEFINITION
- in some sense these two parts, on this level, cannot resolve this conflict, and if a conflict seems intractable & frustrating, that's a sign we're identifying with a subpart and denying the sense of other parts. And from that vantage point there is in some sense no possibility of
- PCT says that in order to solve conflicts, one must go a level or two above the level where the conflict is showing up, to a level where something more abstract is wanted that isn't necessarily in conflict.
- The IFS says that we need to go into what they call "Self". "Self" is a term that (like "part") emerged from the common language of patients. Schwartz would ask them "which voice is speaking now?" and initially this would be a series of parts, but once the person had stepped out of identifying with each of their parts, they would just say "this is just me", or "myself" or "my core self".
- I've explored a different approach to inner conflict resolution that looks more like each part recognizing its part-ness. I call it Internal Trust-Dancing.
- What allows a part to relax?
- I've recently been struck by C. Thi Nguyen's paper Trust as an Unquestioning Attitude, which perhaps shines some light here. In some sense, trusting something is an attitude towards it that
- <something about how the teasing part doesn't trust that the scene is safe, as a segue into...>
- relaxing is about safety, trust as an unquestioning attitude
- Internal Trust-Dancing
- Internal Trust-Dancing, my approach to inner conflict resolution that's based on my Non-Naive Trust Dance framework, orients to parts as almost more like "perspectives". They're perspectives that also have desires & agency (whatever that means) but the central part is that they're oriented to the world differently from each other.
- okay, I've got much of a blog post draft here...