Internal Family Systems Therapy

Internal Family Systems Therapy focuses on topics common in therapists' practice, and provides both a refreshing approach to sometimes-thorny issues, and clear, practical guidance for how best to explore them in treatment. For any practitioner interested in learning about this vital, vibrant form of therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy is the perfect introduction. For clinicians already part of the IFS community, this book is bound to become one of the most essential tools in their toolbox.

Martha Sweezy, PhD, is the associate director and director of training for the dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) program at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a lecturer on psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, and assists at IFS trainings. She is the author of two articles on IFS, "Treating Trauma After Dialectical Behavioral Therapy" in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration (2011, Vol. 21, No. 1, 90-102) and "The Teenager's Confession: Regulating Shame in Internal Family Systems Therapy" in the American Journal of Psychotherapy (2011, Vol. 65, Issue 2, 179-188). She has a therapy and consultation practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. Ellen L. Ziskind, LICSW, has been affiliated with Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy and Two Brattle Center, leading staff groups and doing group consultation. Currently she is on the faculty at Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy. IFS is an integral part of her work with individuals, couples and groups. She has a private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Foreword Richard C. Schwartz An Introduction to IFS Jack Engler 1. The Therapist-Client Relationship and the Transformative Power of Self Richard C. Schwartz 2. Emotional Cannibalism: Shame in Action Martha Sweezy 3. IFS with Children and Adolescents Pamela Krause 4. Self in Relationship: An Introduction to IFS Couple Therapy Toni Herbine-Blank 5. Integrating IFS with Phase Oriented Treatment of Dissociative Disordered Clients Joanne Twombly 6. Embodying the Internal Family Susan McConnell 7. "Who's Taking What?" Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems For Trauma Frank Gustella Anderson 8. The Internal Family System and Adult Health: Changing the Course of Chronic Illness Nancy Sowell 9. IFS and Health Coaching: A New Model of Behavior Change and Medical Decision Making John B. Livingstone & Joanne Gaffney 10. Treating Pornography Addiction with IFS Nancy Wonder 11. Welcoming All Erotic Parts: Our Reactions to the Sexual and Using Polarities to Enhance Erotic Excitement Lawrence G. Rosenberg