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In support of IFS #2
Non-verbal self-feeling as un-conscious psychic structure
Internal Family Systems is impacting how I view the structure of my psyche and my clients. The following may be useful to those learning IFS.
The iceberg and self-talk discussions both invite the question, how much of our internally perceived self-talk is sub-conscious; and, how much is — or might be — un-conscious?
This is another place I appreciate the simplicity of IFS. If most of our fragmented self is sub- and not un-conscious, then our time is best used attending to unresolved sub-conscious disturbances.
Q: What about all the practitioners who talk about client disturbances as being “unconscious” problems? What about everyone who equates “subconscious” with “unconscious”?
A: May God bless them. I suspect this may tell us more about what they are working on than what the client is working on. I do think a big pattern is observable. New clients are much more likely to be working on SUBconscious issues, the fragmented self. The more experienced you are as a practitioner, the more likely you re to be working on deeper UNconscious issues. See if this matches your perceptions.
For these reasons, defining self-talk as un-conscious is rarely helpful to clients. You may be doing what some…
