Internal Family Systems Couple Therapy Skills Manual : Healing Relationships with Intimacy from the Inside Out.

Cover -- Copyright -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section 1: Basic Concepts -- The Nature of Parts -- The U-Turn -- Tips on Countertransference -- Glossary of Terms and Concepts -- Section 2: Treatment in Three Phases -- Phase 1 of Treatment: Learning: Assessment: IFIO is Collaborative and Non-Pathologizing -- An Initial Session -- Phase 2 of Treatment: Getting to the Heart of the Matter -- Tracking Patterns of Conflict -- Courageous Communication: Change Your Conversation to Change Your Relationship -- Setting the Table for a Hard Conversation with Courageous Communication -- Communicating with Courage -- Giving and Receiving -- Intrapsychic Work in Couple Therapy: Going Inside -- Going Inside -- Shaming and Shamefulness -- Healing the Wounds of Shaming -- Phase 3 of Treatment: Ending -- Forgiveness -- Betrayal and Repair -- Section 3: Relational Neurobiology in IFIO -- Regulating the Autonomic Nervous System -- Section 4: Challenges for Therapists -- Therapists have Parts: What's Hard in Therapy is What's Hard for you -- Therapist Parts: Responding to Our Own Reactivity -- Section 5: Experiential Exercises: Reenactments, Rescripting, and Repair -- Experimenting with Experiences: Re-Enactment -- Becoming the Other -- Conclusion -- References.

IFS Couple Therapy Skills Manual presents clinicians with a powerful, non-pathologizing approach to helping couples better understand themselves, their differences, and the underlying reasons for their suffering.

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