Altogether Us: Using Internal Family Systems to Strengthen Your Relationship

In the new book, Richard Schwartz offers an innovative approach to understanding love and closeness. He presents Integrative Family Therapy for Subpersonalities (IFS), according to which our psyche consists of different parts. The author believes that many relationship problems happen because we unconsciously overwhelm our partner with care for our vulnerable parts. The book offers ideas and tools for building a healthy dialogue with your own parts and with your partner. You can learn how vulnerable parts affect relationships, how to recognize and overcome beliefs that cause shame, guilt, and isolation, and how to redirect conflicts for joint growth. The goal is to build healthy partnership relationships—with your partner and with your parts.