About the Historian Personality Subself

        One amazing facility of normal brains is short-term and long-term memory  Adults and kids vary in their ability to remember  trivial and vital things, including abstract concepts.

     A way of looking at this ability is to say that a normal Manager per-sonality subself specializes in retrieving historical information for various reasons - like an internal researcher and librarian. The Observer subself notices things objectively, and passes them on to this Historian for stor-age. The Inner Critic, Perfectionist, Guilty and Shamed inner Kids, Ana-lyzer, Moralizer, and Adult subselves may process (react to) the Histori-an's data to produce local meaning, and help make (or avoid) local de-cisions ("The last time I lied to my boss, I got fired.")

     The Magician subself may distort remembered information to protect Inner Kids against significant pain. The Anesthetist and/or Analyzer may allow remembering painful things but numb out or avoid related emotions. The Blocker may prevent remembering risky things (repression). 

   Here, Project 1 provides an effective way to help integrate and optimize the Historian's talent with other active subselves to make the best use of this vital ability to remember.

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