How To Use This Book The goal of IFS, now an evidence-based treatment, is to embody the Self and heal our injured parts so that we can live with confidence, guided by curiosity and compassion. When clients embody more Self and listen to their parts rather than trying to eliminate these aspects of themselves, their inner dialogues change spontaneously. Their extreme voices calm down, they begin to feel good things: safer, lighter, freer, more open, and more playful. The Goals of IFS Each step of this therapy has a goal. At every point the therapist helps the client to help the part. First, clients help their protective parts differentiate. Second, clients befriend their protective parts and get permission to help wounded parts. Third, clients from a positive relationship with wounded parts, witness their experiences and help them to let go of feeling states and beliefs that are extreme and damaging so they can heal. Accomplishing this milestone liberates protective parts, makes room from healed parts to reintegrate and reinstates the Self as a leader of the inner system. Two Categories of Protective Parts: Proactive and Reactive Proactive Parts We call proactive parts 'managers' because they try to manage our lives in ways that keep emotional pain out of consciousness. They often focus on motivating us to improve, work hard, be productive and be socially acceptable. At the extreme, however, these aims can devolve into tactics like perfectionism, intellectualizing, one-sided caretaking, obsessing about appearance, conflict avoidance at great personal cost and trying to control or please others. Reactive Parts We call reactive protectors “firefighters” because they try to distract from or stop emotional pain as fast as possible without consideration for consequences. These protectors view their actions the way we might view a life-saving medication with terrible side effects: If you need it, use it. Examples include bingeing, purging, addictions, numbing, dissociating and cutting as well as thoughts and behaviors related to suicide.
✔ Author(s): Frank Anderson,Richard Schwartz,Martha Sweezy
✔ Title: Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse
✔ Rating : 4.7 out of 5 base on (1386 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1683730879
✔ ISBN-13: 9781683730873
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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