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Originally Posted by griffinp
I saw T again today and we talked about the numbing out that happened for me last session.
We talked about the flight response I learned as a kid and she said she believes we all have parts, and last week my child part was coming out and did not feel safe and her freeze response was overriding my adult, higher-reasoning part that knew intellectually that I am safe now.
She talked about wanting to give that child part space and giving her the compassion she deserves.
I get what she's saying, I think, about having parts. She's not saying I'm DID or anything...she said we all have parts. But she wants to give the parts space and a voice, and that confuses me.
For those of you who work with parts in therapy, what does that mean? How do you give different parts space and a voice? What does that look like?
Like, do you walk in the room and say "I want my child part to talk today?" Or does that part just emerge as you are talking?
She said she also wants me to get in touch with what my parts need and she will help meet those needs. That sounds nice, but how do I do that??
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the words "having parts" means different things to different people depending on diagnosis and therapy techniques being used.
to some therapists and people in therapy "parts" is a word that means the person has alternate personalities.
to others "parts" means a type of therapy technique that describes how the clients feel and which feeling is dominate at the moment the parent feeling, the adult feeling or the child feeling.
to others "parts" means ego states which is similar to but different than alternate personalities.
and other treatment providers use the term "parts" interchangeably with the word "Roles" which is how a person acts naturally different in different settings.
By your wording of your post I can take a guess that your treatment provider may have been talking in terms of a therapy technique/terminology to describe the therapist's perception of you at that moment so that you could better understand what happened during that session.
if this is the case the book - Parent, Adult Child by Eric Berne - may help you to understand what your therapist was talking about.
Only your treatment provider can tell you definitively what they meant by that term. so my suggestion is contact your therapist and ask them what they meant.
