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Sparked by an Internal Family Systems (IFS) client's lifelong affliction with an unattached burden-something in her mind that was not part of her-Bob Falconer began a decade-long study of the others within us and how they are treated worldwide. This study is important to all of us because what it reveals about the nature of mind holds a key to healing our underlying alienation and isolation.
The Others Within Us includes:case studies
a detailed description of how to work with unattached burdens from an IFS perspective
an extensive survey of how people have worked with the others within in times past and in many cultures around the world.
The journey Bob has taken goes to the farther reaches of human experience. It has revealed insights and understandings that can't help but cause the reader to expand their beliefs about the nature of mind and healing.
About the author
Robert Falconer is best known for his deep involvement with Internal Family Systems therapy as a practitioner, teacher, and writer. For much of his long career, he has focused on the healing of childhood sexual abuse and other major trauma. He now is focused on placing IFS in a multicultural and historical context and working with the others within us --what we find in our minds that is not part of our systems, called unattached burdens and guides in IFS. Bob has come to recognize and appreciate that how we conceive of ourselves and the boundaries of our minds is vitally important not only as a substantial cause of personal suffering but also as an underlying factor in many of our modern social problems. This book clearly describes how to work with unattached burdens and guides, and it explores the farther reaches and wider implications of this topic.
