#not about cdds

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Further Reading 📚

A Review of “Many Minds, One Self” By Schwartz and Falconer

Keith R. Wilson, 2023

I've never really liked IFS, but this review of one of Schwartz's (the founder of IFS) books was actually pretty good. It's a really simple article for anyone looking for a quick primer and it's written by a psychotherapist.

Almost no one sees the advantages of being plural. It can enable you to be more accepting of yourself and others. It can help you adapt to certain environments without committing your whole self. Your subpersonalities can preserve valuable, divergent points of view and provide a laboratory for psychic innovation.

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Many have viewed multiplicity as an out of control psychopathology rather than the natural state of affairs. They assume what they call fragmentation of the mind is the consequence of trauma. The resistance to multiplicity continues to this day when the media spread fear about people who hear voices or have dissociative identity disorder.

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Further Reading 📚

The plural self: Multiplicity in everyday life

Rowan, J., & Cooper, M. (Eds.). (1999).

Abstract

With the emergence of postmodern thinking, the notion of a unified, singular 'self' appears increasingly problematic. Yet for many, postmodernism's proclamation of 'the death of the S' is equally problematic. Can we find a way out of this dilemma? The Plural Self suggests we can.

As a response to the postmodernism dilemma there has been a rapid rise of interest in pluralistic models of the 'self' in which the person is conceptualized as a multiplicity of subpersonalities, as a plurality of existential possibilities, or as a 'being' which is inextricably in-dialogue-with-others. Combining the fluidity of a postmodernist perspective with the human concerns of a romantic one, self-pluralistic thinking promises to be a major new approach to personality in the 21st century.

This book will be a resource for academics and students working in social, humanistic or clinical psychology and for those working in the field of personality. It will also be highly relevant for therapists, counsellors and clinicians who want to develop new skills and techniques to incorporate into their existing practice.