If someone is better off thinking of things as parts that have wants, then they should get the IFS-derived version; if not, then not.
Yeah, this is basically my position. I don’t have any particularly strong opinion on when exactly one is better off thinking that, though. Feels like it depends a lot on the details of their personality, as well as how interested they are in the details in the first place—e.g. if someone was only interested in getting a practical system that they could use as soon as possible, I’d probably point them to IFS. If they wanted to have a thorough understanding of what exactly they were doing and the neural basis of it, I’d give them UtEB. Or something.
IFS feels like it’s easier to just get started with using, since the process is self-guiding to an extent. So I would probably suggest anyone try out at least a couple of sessions with a facilitator, just in case they could grab low-hanging fruit that way. I do think that if people got into this via IFS and it seems to work, no reason to abandon it, though complementing it with other techniques when IFS seems to fail is probably a good idea.
Yeah, this is basically my position. I don’t have any particularly strong opinion on when exactly one is better off thinking that, though. Feels like it depends a lot on the details of their personality, as well as how interested they are in the details in the first place—e.g. if someone was only interested in getting a practical system that they could use as soon as possible, I’d probably point them to IFS. If they wanted to have a thorough understanding of what exactly they were doing and the neural basis of it, I’d give them UtEB. Or something.
IFS feels like it’s easier to just get started with using, since the process is self-guiding to an extent. So I would probably suggest anyone try out at least a couple of sessions with a facilitator, just in case they could grab low-hanging fruit that way. I do think that if people got into this via IFS and it seems to work, no reason to abandon it, though complementing it with other techniques when IFS seems to fail is probably a good idea.