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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Hanover on August 7, 2009 at 5:54pm

As a client, I've found parts therapy to be really effective and useful, occasionally scary (I had a rather badass part), often hilarious. The metaphor that works for me is the "board room," where you get your inner "board of directors" around a table so they can hash out their conflicts, or so you can do a Donald Trump on someone who's no longer serving you, and say "You're Fired!" It's sometimes really funny to learn how different parts are working against each other and causing all kinds of ruckus.

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Johnston on August 7, 2009 at 6:13pm

I didn't ask what parts therapy was ... Ryan Joseph O'Leary did. :p

Parts therapy is very similar to Gestalt Therapy and Transactional Analysis, etc. The way Roy Hunter teaches it is via a client-centered, mediation model. The hypnotist basically acts like a moderator in a debate between the parts and lets the client themselves come up with a solution.

Joshua

Donna Rodolph said:

Parts therapy - in a nutshell is: a concept based on the idea that each individual has a personality that has many different parts to it. Such as... when you are with your kids you are in 'kid mode', when at work 'work mode', when you are with your spouse 'mate mode', etc. etc. Essentially, wearing different hats.
There is certain inner conflicts that happen when one 'mode' likes to have a certain behavior and the other mode does not like it... such as in smoking (one part of you wants to party it up with cigs and the other one knows it is bad for you), and weight issues (one part of you wants to be healthy the other part feels great when they get the joy of binging on a tub of triple chocolate ice cream dessert).
Parts therapy is the process of helping the parts (modes) in conflict to no longer be in conflict....hopefully moving toward the part that is most healthy for you.

You might check out Roy Hunters book "hypnosis for Inner Conflict Resolution (introducing Parts Therapy)"... I read it a while back and found it most enlightening. It's a good read. Roy is a member here on hypnothoughts, I'm sure you can easily find his website.


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Joshua Johnston said: ">

What is parts therapy? In a nutshell, or through a link.

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on August 7, 2009 at 10:13pm

I have found many more uses for it than that. Realizing you are actually talking directly to the judgmental part of the mind, the upper management of who we are, the mind that governs our behavior, the mind that controls what input reaches the reactive mind, and what input it reacts to. Believe me, a lot more is possible and achievable than you might think.

Just my input.
John



Joshua Johnston said:

I didn't ask what parts therapy was ... Ryan Joseph O'Leary did. :p

Parts therapy is very similar to Gestalt Therapy and Transactional Analysis, etc. The way Roy Hunter teaches it is via a client-centered, mediation model. The hypnotist basically acts like a moderator in a debate between the parts and lets the client themselves come up with a solution.

Joshua

Donna Rodolph said:

Parts therapy - in a nutshell is: a concept based on the idea that each individual has a personality that has many different parts to it. Such as... when you are with your kids you are in 'kid mode', when at work 'work mode', when you are with your spouse 'mate mode', etc. etc. Essentially, wearing different hats.
There is certain inner conflicts that happen when one 'mode' likes to have a certain behavior and the other mode does not like it... such as in smoking (one part of you wants to party it up with cigs and the other one knows it is bad for you), and weight issues (one part of you wants to be healthy the other part feels great when they get the joy of binging on a tub of triple chocolate ice cream dessert).
Parts therapy is the process of helping the parts (modes) in conflict to no longer be in conflict....hopefully moving toward the part that is most healthy for you.

You might check out Roy Hunters book "hypnosis for Inner Conflict Resolution (introducing Parts Therapy)"... I read it a while back and found it most enlightening. It's a good read. Roy is a member here on hypnothoughts, I'm sure you can easily find his website.


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Joshua Johnston said: ">

What is parts therapy? In a nutshell, or through a link.

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Permalink Reply by Fable Goodman on August 8, 2009 at 12:08am

Thanks Joshua and Kathleen,

I like your explanations of parts therapy.

I have never used it under that name, but have used it many times without calliing it 'Parts Therapy' I think I got the idea from Virginia Satir. Who might have called a 'Parts Party'.

Get all the parts involved in an issue together for a 'party' or conference, and act as a facilitator/mediator, to help the parts to find a solution that fits and suits all parts, so that they are working together cooperatively, as a team. Rather than 'firing' the weak link as in 'The apprentice', the british (and I think original) version of the Donald trump show, all the parts are valued, and re-deployed if neccesary for the good of the whole system. No redundancies.

It is a very satisfying negotiation.

Love and hugs,

Fable

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