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Becoming Whole: Healing the Exiled & Rejected Parts of Ourselves | Richard Schwartz, Soren Gordhamer

By Richard Schwartz — 2020

32:58 min

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Dr. Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been transforming psychology for decades. IFS has been effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction therapy, and depression treatment and has the potential to radically change our lives. Foreword by Alanis Morissette.

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Richard Schwartz, Alanis Morissette (foreword)
2021
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Facing Our Dark Side: Some Forms of Self-Compassion Are Harder Than Others

Compassion is one of those warm, fuzzy words referring to qualities that often seems in short supply in the ever-accelerating rough and tumble of daily life today.

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Richard Schwartz
2020
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Freedom from Your Inner Critic: A Self-Therapy Approach

We’ve all heard the voice of the inner critic―that part of us that judges us, shames us, and makes us feel inadequate. “You don’t want to give in to the Critic, and it doesn’t really work to fight against it,” explains Dr. Jay Earley.

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Jay Earley, Bonnie Weiss
2025
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We All Have Parts: An Illustrated Guide to Healing Trauma with Internal Family Systems

An Illustrated IFS Psychoeducational Tool for Survivors of Childhood Trauma and Neglect. With simple language and illustrations, this little book will help teach adults and adolescents how to understand their trauma symptoms and how Internal Family Systems (IFS) works to heal them.

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Colleen West
2021
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What is Internal Family Systems Therapy? An Interview With Dr. Richard C. Schwartz

Dr. Schwartz theorizes that the mind is not a unitary entity, but is instead a system that contains multiple parts that work together for the greater good of the whole being. In addition to these multiple parts, we also have a Self that has the capacity to lead the system.

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Katie Novick, Richard Schwartz
2011
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FindCenter Quotes ImageHow could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

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Steven Johnson
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An Ecology of Mind

Mind and nature are a unity.

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Marilyn Wedge
2012
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A Psychotherapist Goes to Therapy—and Gets a Taste of Her Own Medicine

Even psychotherapists sometimes need therapists themselves. My guest Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who realized she needed to talk to a therapist when the man she expected to marry unexpectedly broke up with her.

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Terri Gross
2019
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Yoga and Psychotherapy: The Evolution of Consciousness

For thousands of years, yoga has offered what Western therapists seek to provide today: a way to achieve the total health of body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

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Swami Rama, Swami Ajaya, Rudolph Ballentine
1976
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The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

Newly reissued in trade paperback, from the author of the bestselling Man's Search for Meaning--the classic book in which he first laid out his revolutionary theory of logotherapy. Dr. Viktor E.

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Viktor Frankl
2019
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