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Book

Parts work : an illustrated guide to your inner life

Call Number

  • 616.8914 H7533 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Kalamazoo, MI : Winged Heart Press, c2007.

Physical Description

v, 124 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Summary

This book represents [the author's] own variant of the IFS (Internal Family Systems) model as [he has] used it for nearly twenty years in clinical practice, in the classroom with graduate students at Western Michigan University, and in workshops and trainings throughout the United States and Europe. [Here, he shares his] understanding of why we think, feel and act as we do and how we can move toward harmony and balance in our inner and outer lives. -Introd.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Introduction to Parts Work, "There is a part of me ..."
  • Self in the internal system, "Can we sit in the center and know?"
  • How parts develop in our internal system "parts is parts"
  • How parts interact with each other "then another part of me says ..."
  • Getting the parts in balance "This part means well but it is working way too hard"
  • Parts and relationships, "You always ... you never ... "
  • Distracters and firefighters, "holding off the exiles"
  • Spirituality and inner work "window to your soul"
  • Afterword.

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