The Inner Family You Didn’t Know You Had: A Guide to Internal Family Systems
In traditional psychology, we’re often taught to see the mind as singular—one unified voice that should “make up its mind” or “figure itself out.” This is known as the mono-mind perspective, the idea that we should have one clear, rational sense of self. When you, say, blow up at your partner during a conflict, the mono-mind perspective might say that you simply lost control, acted irrationally, or need to “do better” next time. It assumes that [...]