Internal Family Systems Therapy Quotes

“A part is not just a temporary emotional state or habitual thought pattern. Instead, it is a discrete and autonomous mental system that has an idiosyncratic range of emotion, style of expression, set of abilities, desires, and view of the world. In other words, it is as if we each contain a society of people, each of whom is at a different age and has different interests, talents, and temperaments. In”
― Richard C. Schwartz, Internal Family Systems Therapy

“Imbalanced systems,whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.”
― Richard C. Schwartz, Internal Family Systems Therapy

“Self-led individuals have the great pleasure of recapturing all the energy their protectors used to expend on inhibition, containment, distraction, and rebellion.”
― Richard C. Schwartz, Internal Family Systems Therapy