On thinking more about this.... The way we came to share internal space with our (multi) cousin, was that originally, we created part of that space together. We used to hang on the phone for hours, and the two fronters would report to each other what they saw and heard the insiders doing, how the conversation was going, etc. Later, this developed into visiting each others' worlds, and talking about it later. Only, there were no words for what we were doing back then. Had we been children, we might have called it playing.....except that the playing was very intense and ongoing. However, we were older than that, so we didn't call it anything. It also differed from play, in that it very much affected how we walked through the face-to-face world. (The difference between play, and useful visualization.)
These days, I think therapists get into the heads of multi clients by instructing the multis to "creat your own personal inner house....only you have to follow these rules, and tell me all about it."
This is all quite an interesting subject. - Freddie.
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Date: 2009-11-02 05:18 pm (UTC)The way we came to share internal space with our (multi) cousin, was that originally, we created part of that space together. We used to hang on the phone for hours, and the two fronters would report to each other what they saw and heard the insiders doing, how the conversation was going, etc. Later, this developed into visiting each others' worlds, and talking about it later.
Only, there were no words for what we were doing back then. Had we been children, we might have called it playing.....except that the playing was very intense and ongoing. However, we were older than that, so we didn't call it anything. It also differed from play, in that it very much affected how we walked through the face-to-face world.
(The difference between play, and useful visualization.)
These days, I think therapists get into the heads of multi clients by instructing the multis to "creat your own personal inner house....only you have to follow these rules, and tell me all about it."
This is all quite an interesting subject. - Freddie.