In this reviviting interview, Dr. Richard Schwartz, the creator of Internal Family Systems, shares how all of us have parts that are often stuck in time. Many of these parts are protecting other parts of us who have been hurt in some way. Yet, beyond the parts is an essential Self that is whole and complete. That Self has qualities such as compassion, creativity, curiosity and more. We also talked about the parts that are in the collective field, for example the collective trauma of countries and peoples and how we can individually and collectively heal. Join us for this amazing conversation with Dr. Schwartz. You will be inspired and enlightened.

About Dick Schwrtz

Dick Schwartz began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called “parts.” These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.

IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely-used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and classrooms.

Dick lives with his wife Jeanne near Chicago, close to his three daughters and his growing number of grandchildren.

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List of Books:
https://ifs-institute.com/store/category/11/author/4

Featured Articles:
https://ifs-institute.com/resources/articles/evolution-internal-family-systems-model-dr-richard-schwartz-ph-d
https://ifs-institute.com/resources/articles/larger-self