ABSTRACT
Muscle testing indicates that the human psychosomatic energy system is often organised in 'parts'. The different parts of the mind or personality are able to pursue different agendas sometimes in conflict. This is most apparent in the case of those with dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personality disorder. The mind may best be thought of as combining information-processing properties of a bio-computer with an inner family of parts or sub-personalities that operate its systems and programmes. Art Martin has hypothesised three basic ways in which human beings may respond to conflict with others: compliance, control, and indifference. In Martin’s view, the human system operates with both programmes and parts, or subpersonalities that operate the programmes and carry out the behaviours generated by the programmes. Programmes are much more fundamental and powerful determinants of behaviour than simple traumas and anxieties. Anxieties and phobias may express symptoms, or have roots in trauma, or may be inherited through the energy field.
