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May. 26th, 2023 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelI'm reading two books that were suggested to me by other people, and they're both changing the way I'm thinking about things.
One is "The myth of normal" by Gabor Maté, talking about the relationship between body and mind, the way mental health and physical health affect each other, etc. What he says and how he explains it makes a lot of sense. One thing is that we all have some sort of little-t traumas that affects how we react to things in ways we aren't really conscious of; also there are personality traits that tend to correspond with autoimmune diseases, not causally in the new-agey victim-blaming "disease is just a manifestation of repressed trauma so all you need to do is think happy thoughts", but just that there's some sort of link.
The other is "No Bad Parts" by Richard Schwartz, which proposes an Internal Family System model of the mind where we are composed of separate "parts" each with their own personalities and preferences; often some of these parts get stuck in roles that started out protective and become destructive, but working with these parts can change how they function, e.g. inner critics become cheerleaders or whatever. It's basically "everyone has multiples, like with dissociative identity disorder but without the dissociation or fracturing". As far as I can tell there's no real evidence for IFS (and "lol we all have multiple personalities" feels flippant, much like "we're all a little adhd") but it might make a good metaphorical framework for figuring things out, I don't quite know.
One is "The myth of normal" by Gabor Maté, talking about the relationship between body and mind, the way mental health and physical health affect each other, etc. What he says and how he explains it makes a lot of sense. One thing is that we all have some sort of little-t traumas that affects how we react to things in ways we aren't really conscious of; also there are personality traits that tend to correspond with autoimmune diseases, not causally in the new-agey victim-blaming "disease is just a manifestation of repressed trauma so all you need to do is think happy thoughts", but just that there's some sort of link.
The other is "No Bad Parts" by Richard Schwartz, which proposes an Internal Family System model of the mind where we are composed of separate "parts" each with their own personalities and preferences; often some of these parts get stuck in roles that started out protective and become destructive, but working with these parts can change how they function, e.g. inner critics become cheerleaders or whatever. It's basically "everyone has multiples, like with dissociative identity disorder but without the dissociation or fracturing". As far as I can tell there's no real evidence for IFS (and "lol we all have multiple personalities" feels flippant, much like "we're all a little adhd") but it might make a good metaphorical framework for figuring things out, I don't quite know.
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