The obvious application of this is in any situation where the client indicates a parts conflict through incongruity or internal conflict. Sometimes the client is not aware of the incongruity, so careful pacing may be needed.

Smoking

As referred to earlier, I’ve had great results using Parts Integration as a starting place with clients wanting to give up smoking. Think about it, if the client presents saying, ‘I want to give up smoking’, but has a 20-a-day habit, I’d call that incongruent, wouldn’t you?

I’ve had one or two clients give up on the basis of that one intervention alone. In other cases, it’s been the start of a series of interventions. All the clients I’ve used this approach with have successfully given up smoking.

This approach is relevant in any situation where the client has an outcome and isn’t doing anything about achieving it.

Building rapport between conscious and unconscious

This is a great technique for fostering the relationship between conscious and unconscious. If you have a client who isn’t given to much introspection and is even a bit sceptical about the idea of an unconscious mind that can act independently of the conscious mind, then this process can be a great convincer.

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