The Nature of the Self as it’s understood through an IFS lens is the topic Dick Schwartz speaks with us about in this episode. Among the topics we address are the Dual Nature of Self, Self’s “Agenda,” IFS as a Constraint-Release Model, Self as the Agent of Healing, the wisdom of Self, Self’s Development, Trauma and Self, Self and the Body, Restoring Trust in Self, and Self and Vulnerability.
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D was a family therapist before discovering and developing Internal Family Systems Therapy. He developed his foundational work with IFS in the 1980s after noticing that his clients were made up of many different pieces of “parts” of their “Self.” Dick Schwartz is the author of No Bad Parts, Introduction to Internal Family Systems, You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For, and co-author of many other books.
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