Article on IFS causing harm

[cara susanna]

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https://www.thecut.com/article/truth-about-ifs-therapy-internal-family-systems-trauma-treatment.html?ueid=7c5c15908eb76146479096e054fcf2ca&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OGS%20-%20Oct%2030%2C%202025&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20One%20Great%20Story

I knew it was bad, but not THIS bad

 

[EnPsychlopedia]

https://www.thecut.com/article/truth-about-ifs-therapy-internal-family-systems-trauma-treatment.html?ueid=7c5c15908eb76146479096e054fcf2ca&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OGS%20-%20Oct%2030%2C%202025&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20One%20Great%20Story

I knew it was bad, but not THIS bad

Oh yes, the Castlewood stuff is wild. I dare you to post this to r/therapists.

 

[cara susanna]

Oh yes, the Castlewood stuff is wild. I dare you to post this to r/therapists.

Someone else did and the mods removed it

 

[EnPsychlopedia]

Someone else did and the mods removed it

Lame

 

[PsyDr]

"...hosting a ketamine-fueled “theradelic” week near Santa Cruz, California"

*jokes, I'm not into all that.

 

[R. Matey]

Apparently, the parts are spirits now. Who could've predicted that IFS would continue to get weirder.

 

[cara susanna]

Article was reposted in the therapist sub, and not deleted this time. Not sure what was different about this post versus the other one, but hey.

 

[WisNeuro]

Apparently, the parts are spirits now. Who could've predicted that IFS would continue to get weirder.

If I do Level 1 Tier S training for the low, low, price of $20,000, do I also get a Ouija board signed by Schwartz?

 

[Sanman]

"...hosting a ketamine-fueled “theradelic” week near Santa Cruz, California"

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*jokes, I'm not into all that.

Sounded good until you said Santa Cruz. That's where I draw the line.

 

[smalltownpsych]

That article could have been written in the 80s when all the recovered memory and multiple personality crap was going on. It’s like the more things change, the more they stay the same. Now I know why in the last few years I have had more patients with childhood trauma and/or Borderline PD who are talking a lot about this type of stuff. Two of my most fractured have both realized that the internet is making them worse and are starting to put themselves back together. It helps that I relate to the patients as unitary constructs. As one of my supervisors said in my early training, it’s pretty important to have at least one stable person in the room.

 

[futureapppsy2]

Apparently, the parts are spirits now. Who could've predicted that IFS would continue to get weirder.

Are we going to get into Kingdom Hearts-level “everyone is 5 different people, and also this one person is simultaneously part of 5 different people, but they’re also not him but they are”?

 

[R. Matey]

If I do Level 1 Tier S training for the low, low, price of $20,000, do I also get a Ouija board signed by Schwartz?

Yea, but the instructions to actually summon your dead relatives are only available to level 3 premium gold members

 

[Sanman]

Are we going to get into Kingdom Hearts-level “everyone is 5 different people, and also this one person is simultaneously part of 5 different people, but they’re also not him but they are”?

 

[ForensicPsychFightClub]

Are we going to get into Kingdom Hearts-level “everyone is 5 different people, and also this one person is simultaneously part of 5 different people, but they’re also not him but they are”?

POV of the future: Sitting down to do therapy with a patient who claims that they have an alter of you

 

[PsyDr]

Sounded good until you said Santa Cruz. That's where I draw the line.

 

[PsyDr]

So IFS is basically having people talk to their inner child and convincing them that someone diddled them? And maybe the diddler was a spirit?

 

[Sanman]

So IFS is basically having people talk to their inner child and convincing them that someone diddled them? And maybe the diddler was a spirit?

How long before some pedophile claims it was their inner child parts that did it?