Moving From Acceptance Toward Transformation With Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)

Clients come to psychotherapy intent on changing, rather than accepting, their unwanted behaviors, emotions, or thoughts. The problem often is, however, that their lack of self‐acceptance is the primary obstacle to change. This article describes how one approach, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) mo...

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Published inJournal of clinical psychology Vol. 69; no. 8; pp. 805 - 816
Main Author Schwartz, Richard C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2013
Wiley Periodicals Inc
Subjects
acceptance
Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Behavior
Emotions
Families & family life
Humans
internal family systems
Male
Mind-Body Therapies
multiplicity
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - therapy
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy - methods
Self Concept
acceptance
multiplicity
internal family systems
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Summary:Clients come to psychotherapy intent on changing, rather than accepting, their unwanted behaviors, emotions, or thoughts. The problem often is, however, that their lack of self‐acceptance is the primary obstacle to change. This article describes how one approach, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, fosters clients’ acceptance of all parts of themselves no matter how destructive, and how that acceptance can lead to the transformation of those parts and, in turn, of other people.
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ISSN:0021-9762
1097-4679
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