Subpersonalities

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

After the post about inner children, some people were indignant: “ Who are all these people inside me and why there are so many of them. And in general, the further, the more of them … Here, from time to time, we are talking about personal integrity, so does it come out if we isolate subpersonalities in ourselves, that we break ourselves into pieces. Doesn't this contradict the idea of integrity? " I will answer: "No, it does not contradict." I agree that the term “subpersonality” sounds somewhat embarrassing. That is, it looks as if some strange anthill of God knows who lives inside you. All these characters want something and do something, and the question immediately arises: "And where am I?" Here, we are talking about the "inner child." He wants something there and somehow feels, and as if this child is a kind of demon who lives inside his own life. This is partly true and not true. In fact, all these subpersonalities are neural networks that work in the usual way. This regime took shape in some period of life and is, in principle, self-sufficient if it is built correctly and all its parts receive enough energy (chemical and electrical, etc.) for a certain physiological balance to exist. If there is disorder in this scheme, then it will work incorrectly, malfunction and demand from the outside to intervene and do something that will balance it. How many such schemes are inside us? It is impossible to say. Presumably, each of our skills and even new insights is a new scheme. Some schemes and networks at a certain moment complete their formation and remain in one state until the end of their lives, some continue to form. It is likely that the end of the formation of one scheme coincides with the situation when nothing else can be squeezed out of a particular acquired skill. For example, the skill is at the table. Or there are no resources and opportunities to complete the construction of the circuit. Again, for example, it would be possible to further develop empathy, but there is no one around who could help to do this. But do not forget that even complete circuits still need energy. They must function. Schemes are built up like bricks into more complex systems, and these, in turn, into the personality as a whole. And if somewhere at a lower level there is a failure, then the whole system will work poorly and the whole personality can be skewed. Possibly "skewing the personality" again sounds harsh. In fact, the whole charm of the entire human personality lies in the fact that it can defend itself rather skillfully from distortion, due to the development of other parts of the system. If something is wrong, then other parts will work harder, take on some functions with varying degrees of success. Now why are the proper "subpersonalities" attached to all these neural pathways? The fact is that these paths and networks are very complex and we definitely cannot describe them, but even fully understand them.… We know about them by their external manifestations. It's like we can hear how the machine works under the body. Something buzzes, something knocks, something rumbles. In order to see how this works, you need an access key to the mechanism … But what is an access code for the psyche? This is not a set of instruments for craniotomy, or even an electron microscope or positron emission tomograph. This is a kind of language that our schemes speak. Given that the information for their education came from outside, then you can refer to them using the same information that was once used for their construction. Yes, the same "audio-visual-kinesthetic" in different combinations and different complexity. And if you speak to them in the correct language, they will answer you. Including they will let you know that they have an imbalance and they need something. How will they answer us? Well, just as we ask them. We introduce them to external information, it is encoded in the brain and transmitted to the necessary departments. They answer us, and the information is decoded in the form in which the request was made.(in principle, a person is a pretty friendly interface for himself, but he is not immune from failures).

How to write the correct request and understand the answer? This is where METAPHOR with "subpersonalities" helps us. It is easier for us to represent the parameters of that very internal scheme in the form of a metaphorical conventional person with one or another set of qualities. So we make a request to him in the required language. The metaphor also helps a lot with the answer. The fact is that we see ourselves very badly from the outside. It is believed that we are aware of only 5% of our personality. It takes a very complex abstraction to see yourself as a different person and to observe yourself impartially. And this is the basis for effective work with the psyche. But when we imagine that we are talking with a certain "subpersonality", then it is easier for us to keep our distance and see everything from the perspective of an observer … The work is going much more efficiently. Thus, no fragmentation of the psyche occurs. The method of working with subpersonalities simply allows you to see individual schema-components of yourself and communicate with them. And the more in this case you recognize such schemes in yourself, the easier it is to find small failures in the general system. For example, at one time the Person and the Shadow were singled out. These are 2 camps of schemes that describe presented and hidden subpersonalities. It is wonderful to know and talk about the Shadow, because she, damned, is the source of all sorts of troubles. But working with her is difficult, because in fact, it is a very large group of subpersonalities with a complex fate and character. Some of them are completely rejected, some are suppressed, and some have other nuances of existence. They may want a lot, and sometimes even the opposite. Therefore, it is almost impossible to satisfy her in one fell swoop. It is possible to single out a "child" from the group of suppressed subpersonalities in the Shadow (for the majority, unfortunately, it is there). But it is also hard to work with him, because this is a kindergarten from 0 to adolescence. Children also have different needs, their team has different leaders and they interact in different ways. And the most important thing is that of all the multitude of these subpersonalities, the overwhelming majority work normally. They are in balance and we do not know about them, because they do not need anything. The weather is spoiled by a few. They work with them most often during psychotherapy. Thus, speaking with subpersonalities, you are, in fact, modifying the work of your brain, correcting functioning problems. Yes, it sounds pretentious, but everything that you basically do in life is reflected in the work of the brain. Something is activated, something fades out. You can also arbitrarily interfere with the usual stereotyped operation of individual systems through an access key and change it. It is not easy, because the process is more complicated than tightening loose screws with a wrench, but it is possible. And it is not only the technique of “subpersonalities” that is so magical. In fact, any psychotherapeutic effect has SUCH principle of work. OTHER METAPHORS and other access keys are simply used.