There is a whole drama department in our head, and the casting director indiscriminately handing out the roles of inner dictators and judges, adventurers and prodigal sons, inner entitlement and inner impoverishment. ….When we see how compulsively these thoughts repeat themselves, we being to understand the psychological truth of samsara, the Sanskrit word for circular, repetitive existence…..Samsara also describes the unhealthy repetitions in our daily life. On a moment-to-moment level, we can see our samsaric thought patters re-arise, in unconscious and limited ways. For example, we see how frequently our thoughts include fear, judgment, or grasping. Our thoughts try to justify our point of view. As an Indian saying points out: “He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven.”
Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
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There is a whole drama department in our head, and the casting director indiscriminately handing out the roles of inner dictators and judges, adventurers and prodigal sons, inner entitlement, and inner impoverishment.
This describes a therapy called the internal family system
For PTSD sufferers we have numerous members, some are stuck in the past, numb and dysfunctional battling trauma damage, while others help us live in the present
A person suffering from PTSD will have a very active inner world with competing characters.
All this is a form of dissociation