TEHRAN (IBNA) -- A book on psychological aspects of family, ‘Introduction to the Internal Family ‎Systems Model’ (2001) by the American scientist Richard C. Schwartz has been recently ‎published in Persian.‎
Described as one of the most innovative psychotherapeutic approaches to emerge in recent years, the book has been translated into Persian by Mohammad Mehrad Sadr. Arjmand Publishing in Tehran has released ‘Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model’ in 160 pages.
Internal Family Systems Family Therapy is one of the fastest growing approaches to psychotherapy. It has developed over the past twenty years into a way of understanding and treating human problems that is empowering, effective, and nonpathologizing.
IFS involves helping people heal by listening inside themselves in a new way to different “parts” -- feelings or thoughts – and, in the process, unburdening themselves of extreme beliefs, emotions, sensations, and urges that constrain their lives. As they unburden, people have no more access to Self, our most precious human resource, and are better able to lead their lives from that centered, confident, compassionate place.
In these books, Richard Schwartz, the developer of the Internal Family Systems Model, introduces its basic concepts and methods in an engaging, understandable, and personal style. Therapists will find that the book deepens their appreciation of the IFS Model and helps their clients understand what they are experiencing in therapy. Also includes user-friendly exercises to facilitate learning.
Richard Schwartz began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic, at the University of Illinois and at Northwestern University. Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed the Internal Family Systems model (IFS) in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves.
In 2000, he founded the Center for Self Leadership (www.selfleadership.org), which offers three levels of trainings and workshops in IFS for professionals and the general public, both in this country and abroad. A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz has published five books on family psychotherapy methods.