Does the book talk about schizophrenia? I’m a bit skeptical that coherence therapy and IFS can be used to heal it but I’m quite interested in hearing your thoughts about schizophrenia in relation to subagent models.
Schizophrenia is not listed in the book’s example list of conditions that Coherence Therapy might work for; there is a case study of a woman who hears hallucinatory voices, though the report states that “She did not fit the typical pattern of schizophrenia, which was the diagnosis she had been given”. The general impression I get is that the writer treats them as a psychotic symptom related to her depression rather than her being schizophrenic in general.
I don’t feel like I know enough about schizophrenia to put it in a subagent context.
My expectation is that it wouldn’t work because my model of psychotic disorders suggests that they are primarily caused by sensory processing issues caused by overly strong ontology that causes the psychotic brain’s model of the world to become uncorrelated with direct experience, so psychotic disorders need special treatment to deal with the unique problems they create that prevent conventional therapy techniques from working on them because those techniques never get a chance to start working before they have already been warped into providing evidence that further confirms psychotic beliefs and behaviors as adaptive.
Does the book talk about schizophrenia? I’m a bit skeptical that coherence therapy and IFS can be used to heal it but I’m quite interested in hearing your thoughts about schizophrenia in relation to subagent models.
Schizophrenia is not listed in the book’s example list of conditions that Coherence Therapy might work for; there is a case study of a woman who hears hallucinatory voices, though the report states that “She did not fit the typical pattern of schizophrenia, which was the diagnosis she had been given”. The general impression I get is that the writer treats them as a psychotic symptom related to her depression rather than her being schizophrenic in general.
I don’t feel like I know enough about schizophrenia to put it in a subagent context.
Thanks!
My expectation is that it wouldn’t work because my model of psychotic disorders suggests that they are primarily caused by sensory processing issues caused by overly strong ontology that causes the psychotic brain’s model of the world to become uncorrelated with direct experience, so psychotic disorders need special treatment to deal with the unique problems they create that prevent conventional therapy techniques from working on them because those techniques never get a chance to start working before they have already been warped into providing evidence that further confirms psychotic beliefs and behaviors as adaptive.