Posted by raisinb on April 1, 2008, at 18:51:57
In reply to pulling back, posted by sunnydays on April 1, 2008, at 17:21:18
A former therapist of mine, who was a little more new-agey (actually a LOT more) than the one I have now encouraged me to identify different voices I have in my head and use on myself. Then I was supposed to do imagery with the different "people" in my head.
It worked for me at the time. I was able to identify an "inner child," and what she wanted (desperately, what she wanted at the time was to be allowed to wear boys' clothes, instead of being the perfect little girl expected by her mother), and a critical "b*tch" who never let up on everyone else. I don't have "parts" in the real sense, but identifying the inner conversations was interesting. Your experience reminded me of that.
I think it's from Gestalt theory, originally? I might be wrong.
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