Reimagining Internal Family Systems Through the Lens of AI

IFS Concepts The Internal Family Systems is a psychotherapy proposed by Richard Schwartz in the 1980s. In this model, everybody is a combination of different parts like those characters in the film, Inside Out. But the difference is that only emotions are anthropomorphized in the animation while in IFS, a part can also be a piece of thought or mindset. For example, if you have a social appearance anxiety, there would always be a voice in your mind criticizing your appearance. In IFS we consider the source this voice as a part of your mind. It is kind of like the dramaturgical theory with IFS focusing more on internal feelings and dramaturgical theory emphesizing more on social characters. ...

August 8, 2024 · 8 min