Shouldn't
PARTS PARTIES
sell great near
tinsel town?
-- from the forthcoming
Caiaphas' Voice
Therapy joke, probably ought to link to an ISR glossary item, but that's probably not going to happen today. A "Parts Party" is a therapy technique, a kind of psycho-drama role playing not people from the client's past but various characters thought to be descriptive of the person's internal landscape. If the client were a trained Freudian there would only be three, id, ego and super ego. Likewise you'd only expect a Parent, an Adult and a Child for a Transactional Analysis trainee. But Virginia Satir, who came up with Parts Parties, had a nice way of defining a person not just as three stereotyped parts, but rather as many as she deemed fit for the individual and their current needs. Much more chaotic, much more flexible, in the end probably much more valuable, but also much more likely to be misunderstood and poorly used in the hands of someone who got the surface but not the depth of her work.
The Hollywood reference is probably pretty clear.
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