Book
Parts work : an illustrated guide to your inner life
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.