Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy

Martha Sweezy, PhD, is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and has a therapy and consultation practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is co-editor of Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions, and co-author of Intimacy from the Inside Out: Courage and Compassion in Couple Therapy. Ellen L. Ziskind, LICSW, CGP, has been affiliated with Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and was on the faculty at Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, Two Brattle Center and Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy. She is co-editor of Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions and has a psychotherapy/consultation practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Introduction Janna Malamud Smith 1. Getting Unstuck Pamela Krause, Lawrence G. Rosenberg, and Martha Sweezy 2. An IFS Lens on Addiction: Compassion for Extreme Parts Cece Sykes 3. IFS and Eating Disorders: Healing the Parts Who Hide in Plain Sight Jeanne Catanzaro 4. From Reactive to Self-Led Parenting: IFS Therapy for Parents Paul Neustadt 5. Self-Led Grieving: Transitions, Loss and Death Derek Scott 6. Perpetrator Parts Richard C. Schwartz 7. Dealing With Racism: Should We Exorcise or Embrace Our Inner Bigots? Richard C. Schwartz 8. What IFS Offers to the Treatment of Trauma Frank G. Anderson and Martha Sweezy 9. Expanded Unburdenings: Relaxing Managers and Releasing Creativity Pamela Geib 10. Legacy burdens Ann L. Sinko Glossary Index