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Enduring-patterned people typically have a history in which their unique acts and expressions were either punished or claimed by someone else.

Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

The ten patterns I described come from psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, which was designed to identify them in their full-blown and maladaptive forms, called personality disorders. But these patterns also exist in milder forms that need not be maladaptive.

Samuel Barondes • Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences

As with all the survival patterns, leaving-patterned people tend to recreate their own early wounding through the very things they do to try to keep themselves safe.

Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

Enduring-patterned people need to develop autonomy and self-confidence so that they can complete the tasks of separation and individuation.

Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

In a very real way, a merging-patterned person is stuck in the infant state: empty, helpless, and needing to be cared for.

Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

The five survival patterns described here arise out of five different ways that the flow of energy through the body can be shaped in an attempt to cope with the distress.

Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

IFS is grounded in the observation that the mind is naturally multiple, housing a variety of subpersonalities, or parts . We experience this multiplicity when we feel torn between conflicting desires; maybe part of us wants to pursue a challenging opportunity, but another part fears the risk, while a third part feels exhausted by the inner debate.

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Nick Barr • Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI -

Each of the five survival patterns can be seen as the result of getting stuck in a particular developmental stage, unable to learn the skills and complete the main task of that stage.