Rich in clinical examples, this book offers a fresh perspective on the roles of shame and guilt in psychological distress and presents a step-by-step framework for treatment. Martha Sweezy explains how the principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy are ideally suited to helping trauma survivors and other clients who struggle with debilitating shame to understand and heal psychic parts wounded in childhood. Annotated case illustrations show and explain IFS techniques in action. Other useful features include boxed therapeutic exercises, decision trees, and pointers to help therapists avoid or overcome common pitfalls.

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Guilford Publications

United States, United States of America

1, US, 2023

1, PT, 2023

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"Human beings create and participate in interdependent external systems like families, work environments, schools, and places of worship. In addition to these physiological and external systems, our psyche hosts a complex social system. The premise of this book is that the psyche's social system includes numerous separate centers of motivation with different points of view who communicate by way of feelings, sensations, and thoughts. In this light, we can understand the aftermath of trauma as a systemic response that brings many perspectives to the overriding goal of safety. While others have written about internal family systems therapy with children, in this book we'll be looking at the child parts of adults. In the chapters to come, I show how we can heal from shame-related identity injuries and release young parts from burdened bonds using treatment strategies that any mental health practitioner can learn to use. You need not be trained in IFS to understand my examples or follow my argument"-- Provided by publisher

Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
About the Author
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Section I. The Vulnerable Mind
1. Shame, Guilt, and Psychic Multiplicity
2. The Goal
3. All the Ways We Say No
4. The Shame Cycle
5. Empathy
6. Shame-Based Trauma Bonding: The Child Who Shares Shamefulness
7. Guilt-Based Trauma Bonding: The Child Who Takes Responsibility
Section II. Treatment
The First Portion of Therapy
8. Set the Stage
9. Unblend
10. Navigate Obstacles to Unblending
The Second Portion of Therapy
11. Witness and Unburden
12. Common Problems
13. Take a Tip to Avoid Pitfalls
Section III. Completion
14. How Therapy Ends
References
Index

2023-06-11