num_pages: 150
description: Internal Family Systems Therapy is one of the fastest-growing approaches to psychotherapy. It has developed over the past twenty years into a way of understanding and treating human problems that is empowering effective and nonpathologizing. Internal Family Systems (IFS) involves helping people heal by listening inside themselves in a new way to different parts -- feelings or thoughts -- and in the process unburdening themselves of extreme beliefs emotions sensations and urges that constrain their lives. As they unburden people have more access to Self our most precious human resource and are better able to lead their lives from that centered confident compassionate place.In this book Richard Schwartz the developer of the Internal Family Systems Model introduces its basic concepts and methods in an engaging understandable and personal style. Therapists will find that the book deepens their appreciation of the IFS Model and helps their clients understand what they are experiencing in therapy. Also included are user-friendly exercises to facilitate learning.
language: English
title: Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model
publisher: Trailheads Publications