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