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cillianc's review
1.0
DNF - too much religious rhetoric
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder and Child abuse
Moderate: Religious bigotry
felravenn's review
challenging
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hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
If you don't believe in childhood trauma impacting your adult life, this is not the psychology book for you, but I have a lot of childhood trauma, so I found it helpful on many levels. Filled with lots of great insights and made me reflect a lot. A little too woo-woo for me at times and I didn't agree with everything, but still a good book that I would recommend to people interested in learning about a different type of psychotherapy that has become popular in the last couple of years.
comet64's review
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slow-paced
1.75
The first 2.5 chapters are very good, but the rest of the book turns into a platform for the author’s religious beliefs. In the acknowledgments section, he thanks the person who got him to start doing ketamine because the drug trips are what made him edit the book to be more about spirituality.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Religious bigotry and Mental illness
Moderate: Drug use and Drug abuse
melishajo's review against another edition
challenging
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inspiring
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5.0
I really enjoyed this book and look forward to learning more about IFS therapy
reduck's review
2.0
Liked:
I appreciate that IFS takes the RAINN method and starts with non or de identification instead of ending there. I personally have found this approach enables greater curiosity and compassion for the burdened/hurt part/idea. Like RAINN, I appreciate that IFS takes the next step, one that CBT often doesn’t, of not just understanding a burdened or no longer appropriate thought process but also working on healing it.
Not a fan of:
The tendency of theorists, this one included, to think once their system theory shows promise it should be applied to a wide range of social and physical systems. I didn’t find the attempt to liken parts work to particle physics much more than a brainstormed idea. The IFS approach overall seems to still be based on anecdotal evidence with little scientific evidence. No science quality evidence is provided that there are actually multiple versions of ourself in our subconscious that have their own form of sentience. And of course I could have gone without the spiritualism. I may go back to one of his earlier works as this one has so much meta IFS content I started skipping through pages. Then toward the end I can’t help but think the IFS approach to self anti racism work really could have used its own book length treatment.
heather_mcintosh's review
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
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medium-paced
4.0
thoughtsfromtheafro's review against another edition
emotional
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medium-paced
3.75
A book of helpful tools that definitely isn’t meant to be read in audiobook form. It includes sample approaches/implementation of the IFS model that can be done in live time, as well as examples of clients and himself. The tone and structure could be better, but it still brought about some epiphanies and clarity at different points.
musiciansattire's review
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5.0
Incredibly insightful. I’m so glad I picked up this book, and am slowly integrating the practices in this book into my every day life.