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9 techniques · 3 approaches
Focusing
Dis-identification
Dis-identification
Separating the "I" from problems, feelings, body sensations. The client comes to know: I am not my problems, not my emotions, not my thought…
IFS
Checking Self-Energy — 8 C's
Checking Self-Energy — 8 C's
A diagnostic technique: how much is the client currently in a state of Self rather than being led by a part? The Self is characterized by ei…
IFS
Internal Dialogue (Self-to-Part)
Internal Dialogue (Self-to-Part)
The basic format of most IFS sessions: the client goes inward, finds a part, and the Self enters into dialogue with it. This dialogue unfold…
IFS
Path Exercise
Path Exercise
A structured guided meditation, developed by Schwartz, for the direct experience of the state of the Self. The client imagines a path and as…
IFS
Six F's — Working with a Protector
Six F's — Working with a Protector
The Six F's is the main structured protocol for establishing contact with a Protector part. Developed by Richard Schwartz as a safe, step-by…
IFS
Unblending
Unblending
Unblending is the technique of differentiating the Self from a part that has "merged" with it. Blending is a normal state in which a part ta…
Jung
Mandala Drawing / Painting the Unconscious / Expressive Arts in Jungian Analysis
Mandala Drawing / Painting the Unconscious / Expressive Arts in Jungian Analysis
Jung himself drew mandalas daily in 1916–1919, considering them "cryptograms" of the state of the psyche. A mandala (Sanskrit "circle") is a…
Jung
Transcendent Function / Holding the Tension of Opposites
Transcendent Function / Holding the Tension of Opposites
The transcendent function is the capacity of the psyche to create symbols that unite the opposing contents of the conscious and the unconsci…
Jung
Working with Synchronicity
Working with Synchronicity
Synchronicity — "an acausal connecting principle" (Jung, 1952): meaningful coincidences between external events and inner psychic states. In…
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