This innocent house: long have my ears been accustomed to such inversions of words. We all have parts. Right now, a part of me feels like taking a nap; another part wants to keep writing. Still feeling injured by an offensive electronic-mail message I received from a snake, a part of me want to hit reply on a stinging condescending message, while a different part wants to dismiss the message and pretend it never happened. Most people who know me have seen my intense, sincere, and irritable parts; some have met the gentle little baby that lives inside me. My children reminisce about going on family vacations with my playful and adventurous parts. We used to go to Robert’s Park in Oakland, California USA and my kids really enjoyed the long trails and pristine redwood trees, fresh and, and babbling brooks. It is a far cry from when you walk into the office, in the morning, and see the storm clouds over your boss’s desk, you know precisely what is slithering away. That angry part has a characteristic tone of voice, vocabulary, and body posture—so different from yesterday, when you shared pictures of the giant red wood trees, and cute little raccoons playing in the water with your kids. Parts are not just feelings, but distinct ways of being, with their own beliefs, agendas, and roles in the overall ecology of our lives. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

Close examination shows that such misunderstandings are based on the fact that the person is too fine an observer and understands too much. The more nervous two persons are, the more readily will they give each other cause for disputes, which are based on the fact that one as definitely denies about his how person what he is sure to accept about the other. And this is, indeed, the punishment for the inner dishonesty to which people grant expression under the guise of “forgetting,” of erroneous actions and accidental emotions, a feeling which they would do better to confess to themselves and others when they can no longer control it. As a matter of fact, it can be generally affirmed that everyone is continually practicing psychoanalysis on his neighbors, and consequently, learns to “know” them better than each individual knows himself. The road following the admonition of God leads through the study of one’s own apparently casual commissions and omissions. How well we get along with ourselves depends largely on our internal leadership skills—how well we listen to our different parts, make sure they feel take care of, and keep them from sabotaging one another. When in fact they represent only one element, parts often come across as absolutes when in complex constellations of thoughts, emotions, and sensations. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5

If Rene shouts, “I hate you, Pissy!” in the middle of an argument, Ryan probably thinks she despises him—and in that moment Rene might agree. However, in fact only a part of her is angry, and that part temporarily obscures her generous and affectionate feelings, which may well return when she sees the devastation on Ryan’s face. Innocent, not to say pathetic, as this passage may sound, it is pregnant with painful inferences concerning Ryan’s social hygiene and moral character. For if Rene knew that Ryan found associating with them a little flat and dead, it follows he must have tried to befriend them. People seemed to want escapist fantasy, a feeling of personal identification with fictitious characters, even more than they wanted to actually get to know a person. Our goal is to reveal the underlying mechanisms operating today to produce unreality. Our hope is that is we have a better understanding of how unreality is produced, then we may have a better change of assessing both its influence and the possibility of its containment, if not reversal. Every major school of psychology recognizes that people have subpersonalities and give them different names. It must be admitted that the total possible consciousness may be split into parts which coexist, but mutually ignore each other, and share the objects of knowledge between them. The psyche is a self-regulating system that maintains its equilibrium just as the body does. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5

The natural state of the human psyche consists in a jostling together of its components and in their contradictory behavior and the reconciliation of these opposites is a major problem. Thus, the adversary is none other than ‘the other in me.’ Modern neuroscience has confirmed this notion of the mind as a kind of society. When split brain research was discussed, it was concluded that the mind is composed of semiautonomous functioning modules, each of which has a special role. However, that o the idea that the self is not a unified being, and there may exists within us several realms of consciousness? From our [split-brain] studies, the new idea emerges that there are literally several selves, and they do not necessarily ‘converse’ with each other internally. A study of artificial intelligence declared that the legend of the single Self can only divert us from the target of that inquiry. It can make sense to think there exists, inside your brain, a society of different minds. Like members of a family, the different mind programs can work together to help each other, individually still having its own mental experiences that the others never know anything about. This gives a brief explanation of the characteristic differences between reality and unreality.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

The line between reality and unreality is vanishingly thin at best because it sometimes depends on executive functioning of the brain. How are you feeling and what are you sensing in that moment? Therapist who are trained to see people as complex human beings with multiple characteristics and potentialities can help them explore their system of inner parts and take care of the wounded facets of themselves. There are several such treatment approaches, including the structural dissociation model developed that is widely practiced in Europe. The internal family systems therapy (IFS) offers a systematic way to work with the split-off modules of the mind program that result from trauma. At the core of IFS is the notion that the mind of each of us is like a family in which the member has different levels of maturity, excitability, wisdom, and pain. The parts from a network or system in which change in any one part will affect all the others. Dissociation, therefore, occurs on a continuum. In the trauma, the self-system psychosis and their way of thinking and perceiving is entirely different from the frame of reference that most people experience. Parts of the self become polarized and go to war with one another. Self-loathing coexists (and fights) with grandiosity; loving care with hatred; numbing and passivity with rage and aggression. These extreme parts bear the burden of the trauma. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5