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Luminous Internal Family Systems™
The largest treatment of parts work on this shelf: managers, firefighters, exiles, and the Self that is not another part.
25 chapters · 261,366 words · Narrated · Still being written
IFS holds that the mind is naturally multiple — that the voice pushing you to work and the one that wants to disappear are both parts with jobs, usually protective, usually formed early. Its distinctive claim is that underneath the parts there is a Self which is not itself a part, and which can be present to them without being taken over.
Twenty-five chapters and a quarter of a million words: the model, the language, the sequence, the burdens and the unburdening, and an unusually careful treatment of what should not be attempted without a therapist. Narrated, and still being written; what stands is open to read.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.