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In this video from his 2017 presentation in Toronto Dick Schwartz describes his journey from Family Systems to internal work. He describes how protective parts get into extreme roles, defines burdens and how unburdening transforms the system, describes legacy burdens & how they get taken on, critiques attachment theory, explains why therapists are not necessary as attachment figures for clients and talks about how Self is comparable to the “Good Parent”. He also critiques traditional EMDR from an IFS perspective and discusses the roles parts typically take after unburdening and how burdens differ from vulnerability.
He talks about how his discovery of the Self challenged his scientific aetheistic worldview and led to the incorporation of the Spiritual dimension of the model. He clarifies how Mindfulness is different from the Self-to-part connection and describes aspects of Self beyond the “8 C’s” usually talked about.
Finally he addresses why some clients have greater difficulty accessing Self and speaks to how Self may be invited into the system with DID clients