Alexis Holcomb’s Reviews > No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model > Status Update

For all the wacky granola bullshit and fears of repressed memory theory and manufactured trauma (this is at times giving me Sybil vibes,) he talks about parts that are quasi self which is really just ego/super ego. Yas. He nails it when he ain’t being a crank.

My Lordy our homeboy Dick did not just brush over repressed memory concerns by saying it doesn’t matter if they’re real or not because the blended part benefits fro m unburdening? This is the 80s all over again.

Heres the thing. A vision of a naked girl in the snow could represent many things. It doesn’t have to be real to not have symbolic meaning. Yet if it happened or not is pretty damn important.

System thinking sounds like it overlaps with object relations.

I cannot decide if this is utter genius or complete and utter woo yet I cannot stop reading