Internal Family System (Book Summary)

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In this episode, I give you a few nuggets from Dr Richard Schwartz's book Internal Family Systems (IFS). Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. He focused on the relationships among these parts and noticed that there were systemic patterns to the way they were organized across clients. Let's dive in!

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In this episode, I give you a few nuggets from Dr Richard Schwartz's book Internal Family Systems (IFS). Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within...

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