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Originally Posted by BethRags
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I wonder if therapy is due for a sea-change? Too many already damaged people are severely damaged by inadequate therapists. The power balance is messy and awkward, at best - devastating, at worst.
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I came across this article this morning, about Internal Family Systems as a different paradigm.
https://elemental.medium.com/inside-...r-8be035d54770
and posted the link on the Interesting Psychotherapy Articles. But it seems relevant to Beth's comment above, too.
My last therapist was a trauma specialist, diagnosed me with what was then DDNOS and would now probably be OSDD. Talk therapy with her dealt with "parts", too.. But then, as I have said, she couldn't tolerate one or more of my "parts". WHAT THE H. . .???
Another interesting quote from the article
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All too often, patients in today’s U.S. mental health system fall into a downward spiral of increasing diagnoses and increasing medication.
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I didn't get into increasing medication but I did go into a downward spiral. Where I'm still stuck! I have been finding some relief with meditation in the last few years, so I found this very interesting as well:
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If a patient got all their parts to step aside, protectors and exiles alike, something curious happened. They entered a state of mind far clearer and more joyful than any they seemed able to maintain in day-to-day life: calm, confident, curious, compassionate.
“What part is this?” Schwartz asked, amazed, the first few times it happened. He always got the same answer: “This doesn’t feel like a part. It just feels like myself.”
So Schwartz decided to call it Self: a unified mode of consciousness that seemed to lie just beneath all the sound and fury of parts, surprisingly reminiscent of the clear mental waters that Buddhists sought with mindfulness meditation.
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Hmm. . .
I couldn't find any empirical studies of IFS in a brief search on the web. That's probably something that will be needed if there really is to be a paradigm shift. Even though, of course, empirical facts aren't the main thing that make a paradigm shift.