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Re:Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual ma... by aantix on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:48AM (#18855446)
There’s a psychotherapy approach called Internal Family Systems, IFS, that is the theory that we’re all naturally made up of individual, multiple personalities. Each part of you having it’s own anxieties, fears, goals.

It’s why you could seemingly be one personality when you encounter love, hungry, horny, etc and seemingly different person while in a different context.

https://youtu.be/LuJLv98ks-I

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Re:Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual ma... by drdeca on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @09:53AM (#18855833)
Is this psychotherapy approach generally respected among therapists, or is it kinda fringe?

Because from that description, it sounds like it would probably be a fringe thing, but I don't know the field in the slightest, so I can't be confident in that.

Also, that description at the end of the post, that you say it explains, doesn't seem to match my experience.

Also, I don't think I see how it relates to the parent comment?

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Re:Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual ma... by mr_overalls on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:59AM (#18857095)
I don't work in neuroscience, but I've taken a few courses in undergrad. I'll chime in until a professional can answer your question more definitively.

There's some evidence that the left and right brain hemispheres have their own desires and goals, based on some studies conducted by Roger Perry in the 1960's. Sperry received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his split-brain research.

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/roger-sperrys-split-brain-exper...

Aside from the left-right split, I think there's a large category of well-supported models that conceive of the mind-brain as modular, but with sub-units dedicated to basic processing tasks (memory retrieval, sensory integration, etc.) rather than being fully-formed, discrete "personalities" in themselves.

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