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by thenerdhead 1418 days ago
At first I thought you were talking about the popular “family” theory of the mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Mode...

But now after clicking these links I’m reminded why I stay on the surface of the internet.

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FWIW - Internal Family Systems has been a very helpful therapeutic tool for someone I know suffering from Childhood PTSD.

It has nothing to do with... whatever this TikTok/Social Media thing is.

Schema therapy has fairly similar underpinnings, your mind operates in various "modes" which can communicate internally. Some modes are helpful, some are maladaptive.

Kinda wonder if Marvin Minsky had something useful to say on this? I recall he wrote a book on how the mind is socially organized