Building up to an Internal Family Systems model — LessWrong

Kaj Sotala gives a step-by-step rationalist argument for why Internal Family Systems therapy might work. He begins by talking about how you might bui…

x Building up to an Internal Family Systems model — LessWrong Multiagent Models of Mind Internal Family Systems Subagents Motivations Therapy Emotions Curated 295 Building up to an Internal Family Systems model by Kaj_Sotala 26th Jan 2019 34 min read 86 295 Introduction Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a psychotherapy school/technique/model which lends itself particularly well for being used alone or with a peer. For years, I had noticed that many of the kinds of people who put in a lot of work into developing their emotional and communication skills, some within the rationalist community and

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