Normal personalities are inner-family systems of semi-in-dependent subselves or “parts.” Experience suggests that using family-system therapy principles with subselves is often effective at reducing a wide range of personal and some physical problems. A basic premise here is that when one or more adults’ inner families are out of harmony, their relation-ships and outer families have “major problems.”
6 PSYCHOLOGICAL WOUNDS
- personality fragmenting
- excessive shame and guilts
- excessive fears
- excessive reality distortions
- overtrusting or undertrusting
- difficulty feeling, empathizing, and bonding
By Peter K. Gerlach, MSW
