xenia’s Reviews > Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems: How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders > Status Update
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Really fucking glad this book pushes against the IFS dogma that there is a capable self in all of us just waiting to self-heal dysfunction. This simply isn't true for trauma victims, who have not been taught how to regulate arousal, self-soothe, process emotions, articulate attachment wounds, mentalise other minds. We all have the capacity to develop a self, but it's something mutually constructed through the other.
— Nov 05, 2025 06:26PM
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xenia
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Mad respect for this therapist. There's a section where she straight up says some of us will never heal fully, our lives are too chaotic, fragile, disabled. It's a tiny paragraph, but absolutely fucking affirming to those failed by this world. She ends with but we gotta keep trying anyway. It's both really grounded and sweet.
— Nov 07, 2025 06:49PM
xenia
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Heh, internal family systems sees personality disorders as parts in a dysfunctional whole. I like reclaiming terms like borderline and narcissist, but IFS's rejection of total pathology makes sense. I've always hated the introvert/extrovert binary, because my sociality is dependent on who I'm with and how I feel. It's much the same with personality disorders. The field primes certain parts to emerge.
— Nov 05, 2025 02:18PM
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Nov 05, 2025 06:39PM
to persistently affirm someone's capacity to heal is to dismiss their disability to heal
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