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The book explores the intricate social system within the psyche, highlighting how various centers of motivation communicate through feelings and thoughts. It emphasizes understanding trauma as a systemic response, particularly focusing on the child parts of adults rather than children. The author offers strategies for healing shame-related identity injuries and liberating these young parts from burdens. Accessible to mental health practitioners of all backgrounds, the book provides practical insights without requiring prior knowledge of internal family systems therapy.

'Innovative and transformational' - Gabor Maté 'Changed my life' - Rangan Chatterjee The empowering new way to discover your multifaceted mind. Do you long to break free from a stuck part of you - the inner critic, 'monkey mind', a bad habit or an addiction? What if there was a way to approach those aspects of you, to free you from the constant inner struggle and find true healing? In this groundbreaking international bestseller, Dr Richard Schwartz reveals that we are each born with an 'internal family' of distinct parts within us. Some of our parts can become trapped in destructive patterns, but learning to relate to each of them with curiosity, respect and empathy can vastly expand our capacity to heal. The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model will help you challenge the destructive behaviour of these parts, turn the ego, the inner critic and the saboteur into powerful allies, and allow you to return to a more whole and harmonious 'Self'.

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multi-faceted mind - and healing the many parts that make you who you are.

This book has been replaced by Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition , ISBN 978-1-4625-4146-1.