Mar 25, 2022
…it is becoming increasingly clear that the idea of the mind as unitary is a relatively recent invention of “civilized” society. Indigenous cultures throughout the world were familiar and comfortable not only with a spirit world, but also with an inner realm inhabited by many different voices and characters. It may be that the idea of the normal mind as multiple is less a radical departure from established knowledge than it is returning to an age-old wisdom from which “established knowledge” radically departed. (Schwartz, 2001, p. 85)
Schwartz, R. C. (2001). Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model. Trailheads Publications.