Introduction
Richard Carroll Schwartz, Ph.D., has spent the better part of the past three decades developing and disseminating the Internal Family Systems Model of psychotherapy (IFS). He brought family therapy theory and technique to the intrapsychic worlds of clients and, in so doing, discovered ways of working with individuals, couples, and families that is unique and evidence-based. IFS has become not only a school of family therapy but also a major form of psychotherapy in general, with a vast literature and training institutes throughout the world. He has written or cowritten 5 books and over 50 articles and book chapters about IFS. For 20 years, he also coauthored with Michael Nichols family therapy’s most widely used textbook, Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods.
Career
Richard Schwartz earned his Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University in 1980, after which he began a long association with the Family System Program, a training unit of the Institute for...
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For a full bibliography on IFS see selfleadership.org.
Schwartz, R. C. (1987). Our multiple selves. Family Therapy Networker, 11. 24–31 & 80–83.
Schwartz, R. C. (1988). Working with internal and external family systems. Family Relations.
Schwartz, R. C. (1989). The internal family systems model: an expansion of systems thinking into the level of internal process. Family Therapy Case Studies, 3, 61–66.
Schwartz, R. C. (1992). Rescuing the exiles. Family Therapy Networker, 16.
Schwartz, R. C. (1995). Internal family systems therapy. New York: Guilford Publications. (Published in paperback in 1997).
Schwartz, R. C. (2001a). Introduction to the internal family systems model. Oak Park, IL: Trailheads Publications.
Schwartz, R. C. (2001b). Dealing with racism: To exorcise or embrace inner bigots. Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, 37(3), 55–64.
Schwartz, R. C. (2004). The larger self. Psychotherapy Networker, 28, 36–43.
Schwartz, R. C. (2008). You are the one you’ve been waiting for: Bringing courageous love to intimate relationships. Oak Park, IL: Trailheads Publications.
Schwartz, R. C. (2011). Is mindfulness enough? Going beyond acceptance to healing. Psychotherapy Networker, 35.
Schwartz, R. C. (2013a). Depathologizing the borderline client. Psychotherapy Networker, 37.
Schwartz, R. C. (2013b). Moving from acceptance toward transformation with internal family systems therapy (IFS). Journal of Clinical Psychology, 69(8), 805–816.
Schwartz, R. C. (2015). Facing our dark side. Psychotherapy Networker, 2714.
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Burgoyne, N. (2019). Schwartz, Richard C.. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_927
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