Internal Family Systems Therapy with Dr. Richard Schwartz

We all have different parts inside of us. This is perfectly normal, not psychotic. But our relationship with some parts is often better than others, and a wonderful path to healing and growth is to repair our relationship with all of our parts. That's the premise of Internal Family Systems Therapy, and today Forrest is exploring this powerful modality with the founder of IFS: Dr. Richard Schwartz.

It's a special episode that includes a live demonstration of an IFS session between Forrest and Dr. Schwartz.

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Key Topics:

2:00: Internal Family Systems' origin story.

4:30: An introduction to IFS.

12:40: Allowing the Self to help itself.

14:20: Richard and Forrest do a mock IFS session.

17:40: The "Manager" gets in the way.

18:20: "Direct access" to the "Protector" part.

24:00: Integrating the "session."

27:15: Speaking from our parts.

29:15: "No bad parts."

33:00: Working with our exiled parts. 

35:10: Anger toward our parts, and self-compassion.

37:30: IFS' de-pathologizing stance, and place in the medical model. 

39:40: Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.

42:15: Trauma work, and being with the younger self.

47:45: Recap

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