In this episode Bob lays the groundwork for what Internal Family Systems therapy is; its foundational propositions about the nature of the mind. He also discusses how IFS works and how therapists and their clients use IFS to bring about healing. IFS and psychedelics...
Therapeutic and research work with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy started in the 1950s and 60s and then mostly stopped when the medicines became illegal. Many underground therapists kept doing this work at great personal risk to themselves because they knew how...
Bob chats with Aníbal Enrique and Tisha Shull about traditional therapy, and how it differs from the way we work when integrating IFS and the 12 steps, based on his long experience with recovery and addictions. The traditional thing in addiction treatment is to join...
Much of the work of my adult life was searching for ways to heal from severe trauma for myself and my clients. This search took me decades of hard work and there was much wasted effort and time. IFS is the most potent and respectful model I have found. I want...
This was my primary area of focus and expertise for most of my life. It was my training ground and testing ground for various healing methods. It is still at the base of what I do. Many therapists and people today are too young to remember, but back in the 70s and 80s...
The fields of movement, dance, and expressive arts are already to some extent unified within IFS but so much more could be done with movement. There is so much talk of somatic psychotherapy these days; but most of the time that’s all it is: talk. If people get...
