surprised-not-surprised

February 16th, 2021

• was surprised-not-surprised to hear at 1h25 that Dick Schwartz still has panic coming up at all
  • 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?