"Integration," by Abigail Collins (from Mending Ourselves, 1993)

Read through Mending Ourselves: Expressions of healing & self-integration, by the Readers of MANY VOICES from 1993, and I am glad to pass it on. The most useful, practical stuff I found on how an integration may actually go, and how someone may deal or prepare for it, was in "Integration," by Abigail Collins (pg. 163-166), so I'm just going to transcribe that bit:

( Discussion of final fusion/integration, memory work, with hints on how to deal with it and warnings of the physical and psychological effects therein. Glancing homophobia and reparenting therapy references. )