Internal family systems skills training manual : Trauma-informed treatment for anxiety, depression, PTSD & substance abuse / Frank G. Anderson. [print]

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Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) Assessment and diagnosis Treatment and exercises Common challenges in the alliance with protectors Treatment tips Other applications of IFS therapy

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and more. Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach rooted in neuroscience IFS applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core. This new manual offers straight-forward explanations and illustrates a wide variety of applications. Easy to read and highly practical. - Step-by-step techniques - Annotated case examples - Unique meditations - Downloadable exercises, worksheets IFS is Evidence-Based Thirty years ago, IFS creator Richard Schwartz, PhD, listened to his clients describing the behaviors and fears of their most extreme parts. he found that the inner world of all his clients was characterized by parts who have a positive intent for the client but had taken on extreme roles in an effort to be safe. He also discovered that these extreme parts would become less disruptive and more cooperative once their concerns were addressed and they felt safer. IFS views psychic multiplicity as the norm: we all have parts. In addition, every part has a good intention for the client, and every part has value. When clients listen to all their parts, they can heal their wounded parts. Today, IFS, which has established a legacy of efficiency and effectiveness in treating many mental health issues, is being heralded by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk as a treatment that all clinicians should know.

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About Frank Anderson Dr. Frank Anderson completed his residency in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and specializes in understanding and treating the effects of psychic pain and trauma. He is committed to promoting compassion, hope, healing and non-violence in a troubled world. Dr. Anderson travels around the world as a proponent and instructor of Internal Family Systems (IFS)--an evidence-based treatment that offers an accelerated path to self-awareness and healing of emotional wounds. Unique as both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, he specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation in his private practice and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy, integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy. From serving as the executive director of the Foundation for Self Leadership, to conducting research and collaborating with Pixar, he also attended the Spirit of Humanity Conference in Iceland and treated survivors of the 911 attacks in New York City. He remains active and engaged in his profession.

About Martha Sweezy Martha Sweezy grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts Her mother, Nancy Sweezy, was instrumental at the legendary folk music venue Club 47, revived and managed Jugtown Pottery in North Carolina, founded Refugee Arts Group to work with refugees from Southeast Asia and was finally awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the NebraskaA for her work in traditional arts. Her father, Paul Sweezy, the founder of Monthly Review magazine and press and the author of numerous books, most famously Monopoly Capital written with Paul Baran, was known around the world as the "dean of American Marxists." Martha is an assistant professor, part time, in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a consultant at Cambridge Health Alliance and a psychotherapist in private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts After using psychodynamics, DBT and EMDR with severely traumatized individuals in community mental health for more than 18 years, she discovered internal family systems therapy (IFS) and became fascinated with the response of clients, not to mention with her own experience (IFS training is experiential). When she had gone through all the levels of training on offer she began to write about her clinical experiences and published two articles on IFS in peer reviewed journals. Then, with Ellen Ziskind, she invited some master IFS clinicians to articulate their applications of the model and published two co-edited volumes. Martha also teamed up with Toni Herbine-Blank and Donna Kerpelman to write a book on IFS couple therapy entitled Intimacy from the Inside Out: Courage and Compassion in Couple Therapy. And more recently she co-authored a manual on IFS with Frank Anderson and Richard Schwartz. She remains as impressed and charmed by IFS today as she was when she first saw a video of Dr. Schwartz in session in 2006.