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Schwartz

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Schwartz

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Schwartz is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 21, 2024 and September 12, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Schwartz was born in 1949, so he probably went to therapy school in the 70s and got trained in Freudian analysis”; “Kandel & Schwartz 1982”. It most often appears alongside Harvard, A Change of Heart, Abraham.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 21, 2024
  • Last seen: September 12, 2025

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Book Review: The Others Within Us
May 21, 2024 · Original source
But it’s not just Falconer saying this. The book has a foreword by Richard Schwartz2, the inventor of IFS, where he basically endorses it. It has cover blurbs from some high-ranking IFS trainers. My impression is that everyone high up in IFS believed something like this - some as metaphor, other as literal reality. They avoided talking about it lest it scare away the normies, Falconer got tired of keeping quiet and wrote a book, and everyone else decided to come clean and support him instead of denying anything.
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Step one: CONFIRM IT’S REALLY A DEMON. This is important. Most Parts - even most hostile Parts that tell you on a loop to kill yourself or whatever - really are just traumatized pieces of your own mind. Trying to exorcise them will only make them angry and delay your healing process. This is a pillar of the original IFS formulation - one of Dr. Schwartz’s original books was called No Bad Parts. Luckily, demons apparently have to tell the truth about this? If you ask them point-blank whether they’re a demon, they’ll try to stall and dither. But if you really press the question they almost always admit it.
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Schwartz was born in 1949, so he probably went to therapy school in the 70s and got trained in Freudian analysis. Imagine being a Freudian analyst, in a school full of Freudian analysts, with the name “Dick Schwartz”. At that point your only real option is to invent a new form of therapy on a totally different foundation.
Your Review: The Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Hypothesis
September 12, 2025 · Original source
In short, thinking about LTP’s putative role in memory has moved on from a relatively simple hypothesis (Hebb 1949) to a set of more specific ideas about activity-dependent synaptic plasticity and the multiple types of memory that we now know to exist (Kandel & Schwartz 1982, Lynch & Baudry 1984, McNaughton & Morris 1987, Morris & Frey 1997). These distinct hypotheses do, however, share a common core, which we will call the synaptic plasticity and memory (SPM) hypothesis …