Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions PDF

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Internal family systems therapy, or IFS, is one of the fastest growing models of psychotherapy today. Focused on psychic multiplicity and the healing effects of compassion, this non-pathologizing therapy has been adopted by clinicians around the world. Internal Family Systems Therapy builds on Richard Schwartz’s foundational introductory texts, illustrating how the IFS protocol can be applied to a variety of therapy modalities and patient populations.Each chapter provides clear, practical guidance and clinical illustrations. While addressing questions from therapists who are exploring the model or wonder about its applicability, Internal Family Systems Therapy  is also essential reading for knowledgeable IFS clinicians.

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• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (March 18, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415506832
• ISBN-13: 978-0415506830
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
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Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions PDF

If this book will be your introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS), you've picked the right one. If you think this will be the only book you'll read on IFS it's still the right choice. But keep an open mind as the subject is intriguing enough to warrant a good deal of study. I speak as an interested reader in the realm of psychology, not a professional practioner. A great deal of writing in this field (as in others) is jargon-laden, convoluted, and speaks to arguments I neither need nor care about. This book, by contrast, takes the reader deep into one of the most interesting new paths in psychotherapy in a language clear and free of cant.

An amazing feat of the editors is to have taken 11 different writers' voices and made sure each is distinct and crystalline. As a writer myself, I'm thrilled by this skill in an editor. Too often, muddiness is clarified at the expense of individuality, but not in these essays.

The essays themselves cover various applications of the IFS principles in several different settings and client groups. Beginning with the practitioner's rationale for using IFS in her particular area of expertise, each finishes with case study examples. This is tremendously enlightening, as the reader can see exactly how the principles are put to task in a working session. And the book is alive with people.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in current developments in psychotherapy.

By Rosey

This is a wonderful new book giving many new perspectives on the Internal Family Systems model of therapy. While I absolutely hate the model's name--since it is not family therapy and is not systems therapy--but is instead a form of individual therapy--I love the results it can achieve. I have personally experienced the power of this model to transform one's internal integration.

The basics of IFS are that multiplicity is normal (who doesn't have a running internal dialogue every day of life?)and that the key to mental health and integration is to use the resource of Self--the calm, loving, good, wise essence at the core of each person--to connect with and balance all the competing "parts" of the person into a harmonious "Self-led" whole. Really it is Mindfulness Plus--in that the subject enters a meditative mindful state under the guidance of the therapist, but then instead of just noticing thoughts, feelings, worries instead engages in healing dialogues with those "parts" from the open, caring Self place.

This book is really delightful in its presentation of the many different ways in which this "Self--parts" paradigm may be used for individual, couple, group, world, healing and transformation. A great contribution to the literature.

Love it!

By SaulK