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Internal Family Systems Therapy, First Edition (The Guilford Family Therapy)

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This tool aims to help clients differentiate between their threat defense system (i.e., their inner critic) and their caregiving system (i.e., their inner coach), learning to let go of the former. In Internal Family Systems Therapy, there is one character who is always hidden, but is crucial to the success of the whole. Schwartz confusingly calls this character the Self. Now, many would call the whole system the self, but, to Schwartz, the Self is a special entity. The IFS revolution―how honoring and communicating with our parts changes our approach to mental wellness While there are many aspects to IFS as a theory and treatment model, the primary healing relationship “is between the client’s Self and her young, injured parts” (Sweezy & Ziskind, 2013, p. 1). Still, I understand the value of Internal Family System’s Therapy and want to find a way to make it easy for my clients to swallow and digestible for myself. This is what I came up with.

Thus, primary responsibility for change is not placed on the therapist as it is in some therapies, nor is it placed on the client as it is in others. Instead, in IFS the Selves of client and therapist act as co-therapists, sharing responsibility. They collaborate to harmonize the client’s inner system and relationship to the external world. In the case of fearful, resistant protectors, the co-therapy of Selves in client and therapist simply develops more gradually, as the therapist earns their trust over time. This collaborative stance offers the IFS client the opportunity to feel cared for and accompanied throughout therapy.” pg. 84 Schwartz’s special contribution has been the recognition of three classes of inner characters and the relationship between them. First there are the disavowed parts called the Exiles. These are the memories you would rather not think about and the behavior you swore you would never do again. These are the feelings that threaten to take you over. These are the characters that you have wrapped in duct tape, hidden in the attic. Well, they’re getting pissed, and, whenever they get the chance, they bust out of their cells and raise hell. stars. Interesting, and worth skimming. Written as a reference for practitioners, and so can be a bit dry for laymen reading; but the case-studies are illuminating. Author Richard Schwartz is the founder of IFS.This is a good intro and I'd want more guidance--which would likely have to come in practicums and actual application with real people to practice with. Almost like a textbook style of writing, but not too academic so that most people who aren't necessarily studying psychology or therapy can absorb the concepts. I'm still a little uncertain how to get in touch with my parts and how to label them and talk to them or have them show me who the managers, protectors, and exiles are. I have an idea of how to go about it, but it seems like I'm "doing it wrong." I think in another book there's a practice on how to find your parts. After identifying a part of the self, clients can explore it in greater detail to better understand whether it is doing its job. Experienced practitioners can use the Six Fs Internal Family Systems worksheet to successfully differentiate the protective parts from the self and form vital alliances. Understanding Our Relationship With a Part The first step of IFS is to access the core Self (often achieved through physical grounding exercises and breathing), then use curious introspection to identify and begin to label the varying Parts that pop up and cause anxiety/depression. Can be just a few, or 20+. Schwartz treats Parts as highly independent egos, even going so far as to personify and name them. I think for many readers that mental model strains credulity, but simply viewing Parts as “strong and recurrent emotional states that are inconsistent with each other” is sufficient. The important thing is that they are discrete and internal.

Over the past two decades, Internal Family Systems (IFS) has transformed the practice of psychotherapy. With Introduction to Internal Family Systems, the creator of IFS presents the ideal layperson’s guide for understanding this empowering, effective, and non-pathologizing approach to self-discovery and healing. Dr. Schwartz shares evidence, case studies, and self-care tools to help us move from suppressing our wounded parts to unburdening them from extreme beliefs, emotions, and addictions—shifting these parts from inner obstacles to invaluable allies. The following exercises are two of the most powerful techniques in this fascinating and powerful model (simplified from Schwartz, 2021): The path of selfDrawing the picture and working through this exercise can help them form a clearer understanding of the parts and their relationship to the self. Identifying Managers and Firefighters Essentially, an out of control internal family system cycles through 1) depressive/preventative/inhibiting (managers), 2) anxious/lonely/desperate (exiles), 3) impulsive/reactive/disinhibiting (firefighters). This explains the catch-22 of shame very well. Everyone experiences this type of intrapsychic conflict from time to time (or maybe even all the time).

Individualism: Produced by the survival struggles of pioneers, individualism fosters contempt for vulnerability and a belief that failure is a personal fault. PART of you wants to flip-off (do you hyphenate this word?) that douche bag driver, and another PART of wishes you wouldn’t.

While IFS is a complex, sometimes unlikely, theory, it does provide a valuable model for therapy, healing the relationship between the client’s self and their “young, injured parts” (Sweezy & Ziskind, 2013, p. 1).

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