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Rick61701 said:
I am certified in Parts Therapy. With Parts Therapy the goal is insight and knowledge from each part involved, and integration of all parts.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Rick, do you do Parts Therapy while the client is hypnotized or just in a normal state? What is Parts Therapy? I would be scared of any therapy where the goal is integration as that makes it sound like the goal is to get rid of the ego states, make them into "one" person. I don't want to kill them. They are good, especially my male. I think since his role is diminishing, he just needs to feel he can do something else. My therapist told me the ego states whose roles are no long needed can be given other things to do so they are still useful and can help the dominant personality. He said, in ego state therapy, they are helped to "morph."

You said I have used hypnosis every day of my life. I am not aware of that. Can I use it to help me be in touch with my ego states? How? I have thought of hypnosis as something useful for dealing with pain, weight loss, addiction, etc., but never thought about it before in the context of aiding in talking to one's parts. Is there a book or something that tells a person how to hypnotize themselves and then contact their ego states? I feel like I need an instruction manual for this.

I did go back and review the long hypnotherapy thread from a while back but didn't find answers.... (but that was a great thread!)