Parts work
Subtitle: an illustrated guide to your inner life
By: by Tom Holmes ; with Lauri Holmes ; illustrations by Sharon Eckstein ; book design by Jane Murphy
Publisher: Winged Heart Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780979889707
Subjects: Psychotherapy; Self-consciousness (Awareness); Spiritual  life; Personality
Description: This book represents [the author's] own variant of the IFS (Internal Family Systems) model as [he has] used it for nearly twenty years in clinical practice, in the classroom with graduate students at Western Michigan University, and in workshops and trainings throughout the United States and Europe. [Here, he shares his] understanding of why we think, feel and act as we do and how we can move toward harmony and balance in our inner and outer lives. -Introd.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 124).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Introduction to Parts Work, "There is a part of me ..."; title: Self in the internal system, "Can we sit in the center and know?"; title: How parts develop in our internal system "parts is parts"; title: How parts interact with each other "then another part of me says ..."; title: Getting the parts in balance "This part means well but it is working way too hard"; title: Parts and relationships, "You always ... you never ... "; title: Distracters and firefighters, "holding off the exiles"; title: Spirituality and inner work "window to your soul"; title: Afterword.