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Title: Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz ISBN: 1-57230-272-0 Publisher: Guilford Publications Pub. Date: 11 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book with permanently change your view of psychotherapy
Comment: Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz represents the author's attempt at documenting a fascinating journey into the inner lives of clients. His model uniquely applies systems thinking to internal process, seeing our inner lives as yet another level of human systems. As I read this book, I was taken aback by how psychodynamics suddenly became coherent to me in a way that made intuitive and intellectual sense. Schwartz takes the reader through the development of the IFS model, and demonstrates how the therapy emerged from his interactions with his clients. He is successful in describing the step-by-step process of IFS therapy that is tied directly to the theory.
The IFS model assumes that we all are "multiple personalities", organized by a "self" that is compassionate, curious, and expansive. These sub-personalities, or "parts", are all good and are with us from birth. They are kept in balance and harmony through self-leadership. When the self is threatened by trauma or devaluation from the outside world, the parts protect the self from harm; in doing so, they also lose trust in the self's ability to provide leadership and safety. In "exiling" the self for its own protection, these parts become extreme and polarized; the parts that were hurt carry the burdens of pain and suffering ("exiles") that other parts (i.e., "managers" and "firefighters") try to keep out of conscious awareness through various roles and operations. This becomes a recursive system which feeds upon itself to create symptoms when a person is under stress. These parts, which have been forced into extreme roles, are often identified by mental health professionals as symptoms or "psychopathology". The IFS model assumes that the parts that have taken these extreme roles, when released from these roles, become non-extreme, valuable, and helpful to the person. The IFS model posits that through restoration of trust in the self by these extreme parts, the system's balance and harmony is restored. IFS therapy is a delicate, yet powerful process of restoring the Self in a position of leadership and of healing the wounded parts via the processes of "witnessing" and "unburdening".
After reading this book, I have witnessed Dr. Schwartz work with clients and have incorporated the principles in my own practice. My experience has been that most clients respond extremely well to the model and heal quickly. As a therapist, I have also grown personally and professionally. Dr. Schwartz has documented a major new innovation in the field through this book. It receives my highest endorsement!
Rating: 5
Summary: A "must have" book for those entering the counseling field.
Comment: Through personal application of the therapies described in this book, I found it to be profoundly enlightening. It shed bright lights on the origins of my own thoughts and self-talk. Experiencing the benefits of the therapies, seeing that they work, it provided the best form of teaching to me as to how it can be a valuable resource for helping one's self and for helping others. Having specialized in pastoral counseling while earning my Masters of Divinity degree, this book has done more to help me understand the multiple (and valuable) personalities all persons develop from childhood to adulthood and then how to use these therapies in a counseling setting. Its methods provide such a positive way of looking at ourselves, at other individuals, and at family dynamics. The concept of internal family systems therapy makes so much sense that I hope more therapists and counselors discover it, utilize it, and recommend it.
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Title: Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick ISBN: 155643233X Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Subpersonalities: The People Inside Us by John Rowan ISBN: 0415043298 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Story Re-Visions: Narrative Therapy in the Postmodern World by Alan Parry, Robert E. Doan ISBN: 089862570X Publisher: Guilford Publications Pub. Date: 09 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Metaframeworks : Transcending the Models of Family Therapy by Douglas C. Breunlin, Richard C. Schwartz, Betty Mac Kune-Karrer ISBN: 0787910708 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 19 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $43.00 |
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Title: The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors by Regina A. Goulding, Richard C. Schwartz ISBN: 0393701786 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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