What Are Ego States?

Ego states, we consider them to be sub personalities. In NLP, they call it parts theory, parts therapy. The work really is, this isn't fringe stuff. It goes back to Paul Fredeern who was a compatriot of Sigmund Freud. Watkins and Watkins husband and wife psychology team picked up on the concept. Gordon Emerson has gone so far now as he doesn't call them ego states anymore. He calls them resource states because not only are they sub personalities, they have particular strengths and value that we can apprehend if we know how.