I do agree that it’s not an easy subject to speak about.
There are two separate issues at hand:
What happens if you have multiple personalities
Suppressed anger and its effects
Sometimes abused children develop multiple-personality disorders where they develop new personalities to deal with situations where the characteristics.
I have one friend who has the multiple-personality disorder and is able to switch between them. According to him, he often faced situations where a person was used to dealing with one of his personalities and really surprised when he switched to another personality that has different personality characteristics.
The technique that Ziz advocates seems to intentionally created something that’s similar to multiple personality disorder and I would expect that the same pattern hold where at least one of the personalities is able to do things that are far outside of what the old unified self would do.
I think good evidence that someone is unlikely to cause harm is about observing that they have functional strategies for taking care of boundary violations. If someone’s reaction is instead to ignore their own needs, repress any anger that comes up and go out of his way to avoid causing someone else harm, that strategy is not stable.
Many people would have thought that Mother Thresa is the “least likely person to doubt in God”, but that’s what she did. Her outward presentation of extreme belief in God was not something stable.
It’s a mistake to take the fact that someone is extreme along an axis as evidence of stability.
I do agree that it’s not an easy subject to speak about.
There are two separate issues at hand:
What happens if you have multiple personalities
Suppressed anger and its effects
Sometimes abused children develop multiple-personality disorders where they develop new personalities to deal with situations where the characteristics.
I have one friend who has the multiple-personality disorder and is able to switch between them. According to him, he often faced situations where a person was used to dealing with one of his personalities and really surprised when he switched to another personality that has different personality characteristics.
The technique that Ziz advocates seems to intentionally created something that’s similar to multiple personality disorder and I would expect that the same pattern hold where at least one of the personalities is able to do things that are far outside of what the old unified self would do.
I think good evidence that someone is unlikely to cause harm is about observing that they have functional strategies for taking care of boundary violations. If someone’s reaction is instead to ignore their own needs, repress any anger that comes up and go out of his way to avoid causing someone else harm, that strategy is not stable.
Many people would have thought that Mother Thresa is the “least likely person to doubt in God”, but that’s what she did. Her outward presentation of extreme belief in God was not something stable.
It’s a mistake to take the fact that someone is extreme along an axis as evidence of stability.