Internal family systems theory?

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(07-20-2012, 06:54 PM)weberr13 Wrote: When I first started therapy I was unaware of my alters, I was just "moody" and it was causing increasing issues with my family and my anorexia was getting worse again. I initially wanted EMDR but after doing it once my T got very worried about how it basically was hypnotizing me into a dissociative state. She instead started doing this "internal family systems theory" stuff where she talked about these "parts" of me. Some of them were managers, some were "firefighters" and others were "exiles". She presented it to me as something that works for lots of people with eating disorders, but I honestly think she knew after that first EMDR that DID was really the issue. Since then one of my alters took over in front of someone other than my close family and when they confronted me about it all the pieces fell into place (and I completely came unhinged, but that is another story). Has anyone else had a T talk about this theory? The terminology is slightly different but the concepts seem to fit DID. I'm not advocating it or saying it is bad, but it strikes me as interesting and I wanted to talk about it.

we have heard of it - in fact we've read the book. (it has been a few years since we read it) it is interesting.