{"id":6449,"date":"2017-01-03T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relationalimplicit.com\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:17:36","slug":"schwartz-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/schwartz-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Schwartz: Dealing with our inner conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Richard Schwartz describes how we can understand ourselves better if we think of our inner conflicts as arguments between parts of ourselves. He outlines the kind of mindful interaction through which we can assume effective leadership of these conflicting parts:&nbsp;We&nbsp;learn to compassionately listen to their deep needs underneath the bluster. There is a short demo of the process. This conversation is available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/transcripts\/Schwartz-Richard-2017-01.pdf\">printable PDF transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2604\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6449-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/Schwartz-Richard-2017-01.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/Schwartz-Richard-2017-01.mp3\">https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/Schwartz-Richard-2017-01.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/zug\/podcast\/Schwartz-Richard-2017-01.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Schwartz-Richard-2017-01.mp3\">Download<\/a> (21.8MB) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schwartz-Richard-150x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schwartz-Richard-150x190.jpg 150w, https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schwartz-Richard-90x114.jpg 90w, https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schwartz-Richard.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Richard Schwartz co-authored, with Michael Nichols, <em>Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods<\/em>, the most widely used family therapy text in the U.S. Dr. Schwartz was Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago\u2019s Institute for Juvenile Research and later at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. He developed <em>Internal Family Systems<sup>SM<\/sup><\/em> in response to clients\u2019 descriptions of various parts within themselves. IFS is a nonpathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy. In 2000, Dr. Schwartz founded the <em>Center for Self Leadership<\/em> in Oak Park, Illinois. CSL offers three levels of training in IFS, workshops for professionals and for the general public, an annual national conference, publications, and DVDs of Dr. Schwartz\u2019s work through its web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfleadership.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.selfleadership.org<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; IFS trainings and workshops are also being held in several European countries. Dr. Schwartz has published five books and over fifty articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also conversation with&nbsp;Richard Schwartz about <em><a href=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/schwartz-richard-ifs\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internal Family Systems<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Published January 2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}