Whether you’re brand new to Internal Family SystemsSM or deeply familiar with the model developed by Richard C. Schwartz, this space is designed to meet you where you are. Every reader meets IFS at a different moment. Whether you’re exploring the model for the first time or expanding an established practice, this guided book journey highlights options on where to begin and how to continue deepening your learning.
You’re curious about parts work or just discovering IFS. Start with accessible explanations, stories, and practical introductions.
A warm, accessible introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) that explains the core idea that every part of us has a positive intention. Blends personal stories, exercises, and theory in an approachable way—ideal as the first stop for most readers.
An interactive guide from Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems, to meet, understand, and heal the parts of yourself.
A groundbreaking approach for practicing courageous love and resilient intimacy―from the creator of Internal Family Systems therapy.
A young boy learns to validate and accept his feelings as he comes to understand the different parts of himself.
A highly accessible introduction to a therapeutic approach that brings our inner “parts” into harmony and allows our core Self to lead.
You’ve read several books, taken workshops, or regularly use IFS concepts. Explore titles that offer more depth, nuance, and expanded applications.
In Many Minds, One Self, Richard Schwartz, the developer of Internal Family Systems, and Robert Falconer challenge the notion that we each have one mind from which emanate various thoughts, emotions, images, impulses, and urges.
Acclaimed authors Richard Schwartz and Thomas Hübl teach us how healing trauma can empower us to reclaim resilience and transform our world.
You’re trained in the model developed by Richard C. Schwartz and want advanced, clinical, or specialized resources to support your professional practice.
In IFS (Internal Family Systems) Health Therapy , Nancy Sowell, in collaboration with Martha Sweezy and IFS founder Richard Schwartz, draws upon thirty years of clinical practice and behavioral medicine experience to present a groundbreaking mind-body approach that views protective and vulnerable inner “parts” as key drivers of physical health concerns. From this perspective, relief emerges as clients support these internal parts and release trauma-related burdens.
This book provides that framework by integrating psychedelic-assisted therapy with Internal Family Systems therapy—a model that is uniquely suited to the multiplicity and intensity of the psychedelic state.
Now significantly revised with over 70% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is taught and practiced around the world.
IFS educator Cece Sykes, IFS author Martha Sweezy, and IFS founder, Richard Schwartz, suggest a paradigm shift. Rather than viewing addiction as a pathology, they propose that it reflects the behavior of polarized, protective parts struggling to manage underlying emotional pain.
In this book, Goulding and Schwartz offer an important addition to the iresources upon which adult survivors of childhood abuse draw to get through traumatic and challenging experiences.