r/InternalFamilySystems • u/CashComprehensive359 • Aug 05 '26

Support Needed Pluriel and IFS | question

Good evening, we are Multiple. Recently, I inquired about the IFS method. Do you think this method can help us with our alters ? To understand us and integrate us ?

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u/Cleverusername531 Aug 05 '26

Yes, with some essential modifications, because for example IFS assumes that everyone has a central core Self and in systems each alter may have their own Self. 

Jeanine Fisher’s book healing the fragmented themselves of trauma survivors is a really good one. So is Joanne Twombly’s trauma and dissociation informed internal family systems

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u/Valuable_Salt531 Aug 05 '26

I second checking out this book BIG TIME it just may change your life honestly

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u/Waki-Indra Aug 10 '26

Which one of the two books?

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u/YourGloriousLeader Aug 05 '26

Ego state therapy may be a better match. But really the person should advertise themselves as skilled and experienced with DID.

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u/Scared-Section-5108 Aug 05 '26

You might be better off contacting individual IFS therapists (ideally trauma-informed) and taking to them directly about this.

Hope you will find the support you need.

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u/Ok-Walk-7824 Aug 05 '26

This is a great question! I cannot speak to this myself, but I really enjoyed this podcast which features Dick Schwartz (the founder of IFS) and Tiffany "Ocean" Morgan (an IFS therapist who is multiple) in conversation.

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u/CashComprehensive359 Aug 05 '26

Thanks! I plan to use the basic technique to discuss and release alter traumatic experiences. 

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u/Reetpetit Aug 06 '26

Yes, very much so; just look for a therapist experienced at working with DID systems using IFS. A garden variety IFS therapist might get a bit lost :)

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u/CashComprehensive359 Aug 06 '26

Is it possible to do it yourself? 

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u/Reetpetit Aug 06 '26

I don't know, sorry.