I've never heard it explained this way, that's very interesting! The child/critic schema is what helped me break through but I've since internalized it as my emotional self and logical self, left brains and right brain. My logical self kept my emotional self under very strict control in the effort to protect him. Once I made sure my emotional self was safe, especially from my logical self, he is now able to come out and experience life. With both my logical and emotional selfs working in concert I can bring my full self to bear on life and as a result it gets much easier and clearer.