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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz

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cillianc's review

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1.0

DNF - too much religious rhetoric 
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scarroll178's review against another edition

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This… seems like pseudoscience. The way Schwartz describes it, you can use IFS to label any “undesirable” parts of yourself as “other.” Your violent streak isn’t the “real you,” it’s one of your protectors. Donald Trump’s rampant xenophobia isn’t the “real him,” it’s a protector or a manager. I find Schwartz’s ideas naive at best and purposefully ignorant at worst. True, sometimes people act in violent or self-destructive ways because they’re trying to cope with trauma or protect themselves. However, this is not always the case, and pretending that it is ignores hundreds of years of evidence to the contrary. 

I feel for a lot of the people Schwartz had sessions with, and I don’t have anything against them. If Schwartz was able to help them, great. But it’s a hard pass for me. 
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katharina90's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

Read this book for therapy. I appreciate the concept at a high level and agree with many of the philosophical and theoretical aspects of IFS, but I have a hard time connecting with the practical side. In particular the transcribed therapy sessions did not resonate with me. 
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sierrascha's review

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Richard Schwartz is a bit pretentious, but IFS is a really interesting theory that can be really helpful. A bit similar to narrative externalizing, this book offers a range of exercises that are great for self-help seekers and therapists. 
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