Internal Family Systems Therapy is a health book by author Richard C. Schwartz, Martha Sweezy.
This is the authoritative audio presentation of Intra-Family System (IFS) therapy, taught and practiced around the world.
IFS reveals how sub-personalities or “parts” of an individual’s psyche are related to each other as members of a family, and how – just as in a family – the polarization between the parts can can lead to emotional distress. IFS initiator Richard Schwartz and master clinician Martha Sweezy explain core concepts and provide practical guidelines for implementing IFS with clients struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, and depression. emotions, eating disorders, addictions, and other behavioral problems. They also deal with strategies for treating families and couples. IFS therapy is listed in the SAMHSA National Register of Evidence-Based Practices and Programs.
I enjoyed the book that provides good supervisors on the history and document enforcement of the Internal Home System (IFS). What interests me is the evolution of the system from influences such as Gregory Bateson, an anthropologist and thematic systems thinker who influenced psychology by emphasizing context in analysis. .
Richard Shwartz as discovered the therapeutic system through a kind of ethnography with his clients – that is, listening to them instead of coming from a favorable expert and imposing pre-determined pathologies. patient. Important discoveries involve such that by recognizing the internal organs of his client and then being able to question and directly interview these parts, the therapist can make great strides in assisting clients to repair their inner mental system. Structural therapy is not pathological and makes it less threatening to clients seeking help.
The book covers most aspects of therapy as well as has a general social and cultural agenda which I appreciate because I don’t think a systems thinker can ignore this, especially now.
