In a conversation on the IFS Talks Podcast with Alexia Rothman & Aníbal Enriques, Bob discusses multiplicity in psychotherapy, the subject of the book he co-authored in 2018 with Dr. Richard Schwartz, the developer of the IFS model, entitled Many Minds, One Self:...
This is a meditation I find very helpful in preparation sessions – I want to offer my thanks to a participant from a workshop that I conducted recently, who transcribed this whole meditation. It’s one I use myself often, and with a lot of people and it...
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...
The Korean shamanic tradition, the Mudang, has been around for many hundreds of years even though it has been persecuted and outlawed at times. The Mudang are mostly women, and until very recently, they were looked down on, in the same class as prostitutes; almost...
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...
