In this episode of Emerge, Daniel and Bob discuss IFS and spirit possession. The talk about Bob’s personal trauma and the historical fight for the cultural and professional recognition of abuse, trauma, and PTSD. They then delve into the history of psychotherapy and its connections to capitalism and colonialism, and Bob’s perspectives on Internal Family Systems (IFS), while they explore the major themes of Bob’s book. Also covered are the porous nature of the mind, differing cultural models of mind, psychosis and spirit possession, Bob’s personal experiences with “the others within us,” the imaginal realm, and how Western psychology might shift from a “mono-mind” perspective to a “porous mind” one in the future.
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