Introductory Video
Developer of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach, Richard Schwartz gives an overview of the model:
Foundational Sources
The following is a selection of the many books available to you through BU Libraries Search:
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Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017This new manual offers straight-forward explanations and illustrates a wide variety of applications. 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. -
Internal Family Systems Therapy
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2013Builds on Richard Schwartz's foundational introductory texts, illustrating how the IFS protocol can be applied to a variety of therapy modalities and patient populations. -
Transcending Trauma
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021Masterfully details an IFS path to therapy that allows clients to access their inherent capacity for healing - called self-energy - while also helping them welcome, as opposed to manage, the extreme emotions frequently associated with trauma. -
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment. -
Somatic internal family systems therapy : awareness, breath, resonance, movement, and touch in practice
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Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020Broadening the benefits and applications of the IFS model, author Susan McConnell introduces 5 core practices that mental health professionals can apply to their practice: somatic awareness, conscious breathing, radical resonance, mindful movement, and attuned touch. -
You Are the One You've Been Waiting For
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Location: Mugar Library - RC488.5 .S383 2023Publication Date: 2023A groundbreaking approach for practicing courageous love and resilient intimacy--from the creator of Internal Family Systems therapy.
Film, Audio, and Video
The following is a selection of the many video resources available to you through BU Libraries Search:
- Paul Peluso: "A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity: Helping Couples Understand, Recover From, and Avoid Future Affairs" (2019)
- Frank Anderson: "Psychotherapy networker. Parenting with Internal Family Systems (IFS)" (2019)
- Richard Schwartz: "Addictive behaviors as self-preservation : key insights from the Internal Family Systems model" (2020)
- Frank Anderson: "IFS and parenting : help kids transition forward to a calm centered place" (2020)
The following is a selection of many podcasts available online:
- "Unpacking Legacy Burdens Through Collective Spaces" on Point of Relation Podcast (2023)
- "IFS & Unburdening the Self with Dr. Richard Schwartz" on the Hoffman Podcast (2023)
- "Psychedelic-assisted IFS for Eating Disorders and Spiritual Development with Dr. Richard Schwartz" on the Psychedelic Frontier Podcast (2023)
