The Others Within Us
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The Others Within Us is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 21, 2024 and May 28, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “At least this is what I take from The Others Within Us, by Robert Falconer”; “The Others Within Us tries to argue that this had negative effects”; “In my book review of The Others Within Us”. It most often appears alongside Carl Jung, Falconer, IFS.
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- Category: Books
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 21, 2024
- Last seen: May 28, 2024
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- Carl Jung (2 shared issues)
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- Falconer (2 shared issues)
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- IFS (2 shared issues)
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- Internal Family Systems (2 shared issues)
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- Sabby (2 shared issues)
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- Australia (1 shared issues)
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- autonomous imagination (1 shared issues)
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- Bali (1 shared issues)
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- Bay Area (1 shared issues)
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- Bessel van der Kolk (1 shared issues)
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- Bob (1 shared issues)
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- Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
At least this is what I take from The Others Within Us, by Robert Falconer, a veteran IFS therapist.
Inline links: The Others Within Us
So IFS therapists are telling patients about all their Parts. And they say “all of these Parts are beautiful facets of your variegated Self”, and most patients believe them. But occasionally if there’s some sort of really repressed ego dystonic thing, then their lucid-dream-trance mind will say “No, that one isn’t part of my Self, it’s an evil invader that I hate”. IFS is prepared for this and walks them through how no, really, it’s a beautiful facet of your variegated Self that you’ve just really repressed and which you consider ego dystonic - I don’t want to accuse them of not doing this; The Others Within Us is very clear that they push this line as hard as they can. Still, some patients just don’t buy it. Some patients have some perverse part of them that they can’t identify with in any way, at all, something with no redeeming value according to the moral system of their dominant personality. No matter how hard their IFS therapist tells them it’s a part of them, they’ll insist it’s not. And if they’re in a lucid-dream-trance, they’ll say that they can sense it as some form of foreign dark energy, and that it entered them from the outside during an abuse episode - which is as good a metaphor for trauma as any other that I’ve heard.
The Others Within Us tries to argue that this had negative effects. We might avoid outright demonic encounters, but we have worse versions of everything else, and lots of demon-shaped trauma knots that we can’t acknowledge or do anything about and fruitlessly try to hit with our “some brain circuit is overactive” hammer, hoping they will one day reveal themselves as nails. Falconer also cites research that we have worse outcomes from schizophrenia than other cultures (although I think some of that has been challenged by claims about diagnostic variability), and makes the common alt-psychiatry point that maybe schizophrenia is a shamanic crisis, of the sort that other cultures would resolve by becoming shamans6. He thinks that opening ourselves up to spiritual ideas would help our trauma, our schizophrenia, and maybe our anxiety and depression to boot7.
In my book review of The Others Within Us, I wrote:
Inline links: my book review of