Discover Your Subpersonalities: Our Inner World and the People in It

by John Rowan

Have you ever felt there is more than one you? That sometimes you are one type of person, sometimes another? Do you ever find yourself saying `yes' when you meant to say `no'? Or deciding to do one thing, then actually doing another?
Most of us have had this experience of another personality taking us over, causing us to behave in an unintended way. Why do we do it? What's going on? Well known psychologist and writer John Rowan shows how each of us is made up of a number of `subpersonalities'. Some may help us, some may hinder us. If we want to be in charge of our inner world we had better find out who they are and what they do. John Rowan has written this book specifically to enable you to do this. Lively and entertaining, with questionnaires and simple exercises, Discover Your Subpersonalities will enable you to get to know the people inside you!

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Gypsy · Rating 4 out of 5]

شاید سه نمره بهتری باشه. ولی نمی‌خوام از روی لجم نمره بدم. :دی لجم ازینکه این همه نظریه و رویکردِ جالب و هیجان‌انگیز رو مطرح کرده ولی خیلیییی خلاصه! ینی تازه داری خوشت می‌آد و مجذوب یکی‌شون می‌شی، می‌ره بعدی! می‌دونم اگه قرار بود مفصل بهشون بپردازه، خیلی قطور می‌شد. از طرفی بعضی نویسنده‌ها و مولف‌ها علاقه دارن یه ف بگن و این مخاطب هوشمند و هشیار باشه که دنبال فرحزادش بگرده.

بعدم این‌که، همین خلاصه بودنش خیلی مهمه. باز خیلی‌ها اعتقاد دارن نباید یهو طرف رو به رگبارِ اطلاعات ببندی. از هر قسمت یه ریزه بگو، اصل مطلب رو برسون، کافیه. به یادسپاری و بازیابی‌شم راحت‌تره. برای همین باید بازم بخونمش و دنبال هر نظریه‌ای که گفته بود، برم و روشون وقت بذارم. وگرنه لطف چندانی نداره خوندنش. بخصوص واسه کسی که می‌خواد تو این حیطه تحصیل و کار کنه.

[Heiki Eesmaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

An overview of parts models that has great drawings and examples. Its strength is in demonstrating how various subpersonality constructs are the same -- from psychodynamic models to TA to Gestalt to Voice Dialogue. Also, techniques from more cognitive to psychodramatic. It is of course outdated, not including things like schema modes or IFS. Rowan abandoned some of the literalness of this work later in his life, adopting Dialogical Self Theory. That did not render this work exactly wrong -- just putting earlier parts models in a more flexible context of inner polyphony.