Apr 24, 2020
Dr. Frank Anderson joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to
explore the Internal Family Systems model of therapy and its
perspective on the nature of mind, trauma, “triggers”, and the
symptoms of mental illness. We also talk about the transpersonal
context of the self, choosing to grow up in the face of our own
traumas, IFS’ application to psychedelic therapies, and how to use
IFS to navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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***Full Topics Breakdown Below***
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Episode Breakdown
- What
is Internal family systems therapy?
- Systems thinking and the multiplicity of the
mind
- Everybody is born with 'self-energy' and we
don't need to build it or cultivate it
- We
all have multiple personalities, IFS calls them
'parts'
- The
problems of parts taking on extreme roles
- The
different types of parts and their roles
- the
two types of protective parts: mangers and firefighters
- the
wounded parts: exiles
- All
our parts have positive intention - even if those intentions have
negative results
- How
IFS is different than conventional therapy insofar as how it
addresses 'problematic behavior': e.g. Cutting, addiction and
suicide
- How
important therapist authenticity of affect is during the
co-regulation process between client and therapist
- The
difference between managing symptoms and healing
wounds
- What
an IFS session looks like and the vital importance of 'getting the
permission of the protective parts' before doing any healing
work
- The
client does the healing, the therapist is an adjunct
- Healing happened through the internal
relationship between the self and the parts
- Self-energy: what is it, what does it feel
like, what is its role and how do we connect with
it
- How
trauma impacts our relationship between the self and our
parts
- In
the IFS context of trauma, what does it mean to be an
adult
- Growing up and healing trauma is a choice we
need to need to make, even when our capacity to choose is different
in different contexts (e.g. Systemic
disenfranchisement)
- The
metaphysics of choosing our trauma before being born as a spiritual
process
- We
all have the capacity to heal our trauma
- How
does IFS understand psychedelic therapy, generally and
specifically: MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine
- There
is such a difference between low dose and high dose ketamine
insofar as doing therapy
- Low-dose ketamine psychotherapy using IFS
protocol, compared to MDMA protocol
- The
exciting potentials of how different psychedelic therapies can be
optimized through IFS
- The
impotence of differing between recreational, therapeutic, spiritual
and harmful use
- An
IFS interpretation of the imperial ACE psilocybin
model
- Should therapists experience psychedelics
before providing psychedelic therapy
- How
does understanding IFS as a paradigm for living help us
with or without trauma
- How
to use self-facilitated IFS processes to deal with the
trauma/pain/fear of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Unblending from our past so we can show up to
what's actually happening right now
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