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The following is an example of the usefulness of working with the subconscious to solve a problem. In a session with a torture survivor, I identified at least three new parts that I had not met in previous sessions. I asked the subconscious if she could treat these parts. The subconscious said, “Yes.” I asked her to treat these parts and to let me know when she had finished. After she finished, I asked if she had joined these parts with “Barbara,” as I normally had her do. She said, “Yes.” I asked Barbara to become the active personality. She spontaneously commented that the three parts that had recently joined with her had made her experience chaotic. I returned to the subconscious to discover that I had been working with a surrogate subconscious — a fake subconscious. The integrated parts still had trauma emotions associated with them. The trauma emotions associated with the parts caused a disturbance in Barbara. While the surrogate subconscious was the active personality, I asked the true subconscious if she could treat this part. The subconscious signaled “No” with a thumb response.

I communicated with the subconscious by asking leading questions and getting “Yes” and “No” answers. It is similar to the game of 20 questions. I discovered the surrogate subconscious was a programmed part, a part deliberately created by the use of torture. One of its activities was to repeat “I won’t do it” continuously in the unconscious. This repetitive, unconscious behavior caused a barrier to treatment. It disorganized the patient’s unconscious behavior so treatment would not work. It was like receiving therapy while repeatedly singing “Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo.” I reassured the subconscious that painful emotions motivated the “I won’t do it, I won’t do it” program. The patient learned these emotions from the trauma during the programming. I stressed that the repeating response would become less motivated as she treated the trauma emotions associated with the program. She said she would try to treat the programmed part as I had previously requested. I waited while the subconscious was doing the treatment and talked to the programmed part. After several minutes, the surrogate said, “I’m beginning to feel confused” and then, within a minute, she gradually went into a dormant state; my patient’s eyes closed and her head slumped. Barbara returned to become the active personality. She said spontaneously that another fragment joined with her. Therapy continued.