Richard Schwartz: Greater than the Sum of Our Parts

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Richard Schwartz, PhD, is a therapist, author, and the founder of the Internal Family Systems modality of psychotherapy. With Sounds True, he has most recently created the audio program Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Schwartz about the origins of IFS—specifically how his family therapy practice made him realize that every client had a multiplicity of internal parts that were often in conflict with one another. As he delved more deeply into the issue, Dr. Schwartz crafted a therapeutic model that directly engaged these parts, addressed their grievances, assured their safety, and eventually brought them under the leadership of a primary, centered "Self." Dr. Schwartz and Tami discuss how parts take on emotional burdens, freezing their development in moments of high stress or trauma. They also talk about the intersection of IFS and MDMA therapy, as well as how research in that area might open new avenues for treatment of serious psychological disorders. Finally, Dr. Schwartz describes how IFS can be applied to social activism, spiritual exploration, and the ups and downs of everyday life. (70 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Dr. Richard Schwartz.
0:44.8	Richard Schwartz is the founder of the Center for Self Leadership and his books
0:50.7	include Internal Family Systems Therapy and you are the one you've been waiting for.
0:57.1	Richard Schwartz has developed internal family systems in response to clients descriptions of experiencing various parts, many extreme within themselves.
1:10.0	He noticed that when these parts felt safe and had their concerns addressed, they were less disruptive,
1:17.3	and would exceed to the wise leadership of what Richard Schwartz came to call the self.
1:24.0	With sounds true, Richard Schwartz has created a new audio learning series called Greater
1:31.0	than the Some of our Parts, discovering your true self through internal
1:36.5	family systems therapy, where he shows us how to engage even the most disturbing or unwanted parts of our psyche with openness and love, so we
1:48.4	may unlock the hidden gifts and wisdom each part contains. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Dick and I spoke
1:58.2	about the multiplicity phenomenon, how we are all multiples, and how he stumbled upon the discovery that we are
2:06.9	made of many parts.
2:09.4	We talked about how our parts can take on emotional states as burdens and how the unburdening
2:17.4	process works within IFS. We also talked about connections between IFS and shamanism, new discoveries about IFS through
2:29.7	MDMA research and how Dick is bringing IFS to the world of social activism, education, medicine, and mediation.
2:41.0	And finally, we talked about what it means to be self-led, and how this relates to spiritual
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