Resolving Inner Conflict: Working Through Polarization Using Internal Family Systems Therapy

This book is a detailed treatment of how to work with inner conflict in Internal Family Systems Therapy, including transcripts of actual sessions to show exactly how the technique works. Though written for psychotherapists, it isalso accessible to people who want to deepen their IFS work on themselves.

Jay Earley, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, psychotherapist, group leader, author, teacher, and theorist. He is a big-picture thinker and innovative psychological theorist.

He studies psychotherapy in a comprehensive way to arrive at a depth understanding of the human psyche and the process of transformation. Jay is known the clarity of his teaching and writing, his creative methods of demonstrating complex ideas, and his detailed description of therapeutic technique. In his therapy work, people rely on Jay's compassionate heart and sensitivity to group process. He has a deep understanding of the nature of therapeutic change and knows how to effect profound inner healing.

Jay focuses on Internal Family Systems Therapy in all aspects of his work. He is active in the IFS community, helping to train therapists and presenting workshops every year at the IFS conference. He teaches IFS to the general public as a practice for self-help and peer counseling. He also teaches a variety of classes and workshops applying IFS to specific psychological issues such as procrastination, communication, relationships, and the inner critic. He is the author of Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Inner Wholeness Using IFS and Self-Therapy for Your Inner Critic.

Dr. Earley is nationally known for his innovation in the group psychotherapy field, published in Interactive Group Therapy: Integrating Interpersonal, Action-Oriented, and Psychodynamic Approaches. He continues to lead interactive and IFS therapy groups in the Bay Area. Jay has created the Pattern System, a method for understanding parts, behavior, healthy capacities, internal dynamics, and underlying psychological issues.

Jay has also published Transforming Human Culture: Social Evolution and the Planetary Crisis and Inner Journeys: A Guide to Personal and Social Transformation.