IFS: A System for Introspection

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I think part of what the appeal is for me is that there's less presupposed about what's going on with people. And it's more like here's a way to relate to yourself where maybe you can introspect correctly. People could also get false positives. If I'm working with someone or myself, I don't really have any opinion about whether this worked unless you go away and then it's different in which case it did.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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