I've been in therapy for almost a year. At first my goal was integration, but now it's more cooperation. I have about 13 known parts, and a couple of them have already integrated (why that happened so fast is a very long story, I've actually been interacting with several of my parts for years with increasing coconsciousness, but I did not know this as it was my "normal" and I am a writer--thought I was just really quirky and imaginative). I shifted to cooperation as the goal because that's something we can all agree to and I was criticized by some of them for acting like my goals and feelings were the only important ones in the system! Just because I'm the one who goes to work and school doesn't mean I get to decide what's best for everyone. So if any of them decide integration is what they want, great, and if not, we can cooperate for the rest of our life.