Internal Family Systems Therapy

Abstract

Moreno noted that the self emerges from the roles, and over the years, this pluralistic model of the mind has been "discovered" by many others in literature as well as psychology. The author of this book has creatively synthesized developments in family-systems therapy with this pluralistic modelthat is, the personality is seen as being a composite of many parts, in spite of the illusory tendency to experience oneself as a unity. Stated simply, much of traditional intrapsychic psychodynamics can be translated from the bulky and
often obscure analytic jargon into a dramaturgical language-and more than a language, a scene-a dialogue between and among parts. Yet such an approach does not dilute the richness of psychodynamic insights but rather further enriches them.