(Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, 1996-03) Price, Donald A.
The popular concept of "the inner child " and "inner child work " will be evaluated and compared to various theories of personal development, including object relations, self psychology, Jungian and dissociation theories. It will be suggested that much of what is being accessed in such work is compatible with these theories and may be at least ego-state based rather than just a pleasing visualization or metaphor. Terminology clarifications and cautions as well as directions for effective hypnotic approaches will be outlined.
