Like, your mind is sort of like the executive committee of a complex organization, made up of subselves like Chief Status Officer, Director of Sexuality, Senior VP for Spiritual Development.
— Sport of Brahma (@SportOfBrahma) February 12, 2022
You can see signs of the political fractures throughout the book. It tries to soften the blow by replacing “demons” with the technical IFS term UBs (for “unattached burdens”) and it inconsistently calls exorcisms “unburdenings”. It flirts with the idea that maybe this is just a useful metaphor, then veers off into “no it’s literally real” (I want to stress that the literal reality is Falconer’s position, not necessarily that of mainstream IFS). It alternates between apologetic and defiant.