Self-Therapy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness and Healing Your Inner Child Using IFS, A New, Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Earley, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984392777 ISBN 13: 9780984392773

Publisher: Pattern System Books, 2012

Synopsis

Understand your psyche in a clear and comprehensive way, and resolve deep-seated emotional issues. Self-Therapy makes the power of a cutting-edge psychotherapy approach accessible to everyone. Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) has been spreading rapidly across the country in the past decade. It is incredibly effective on a wide variety of life issues, such as self-esteem, procrastination, depression, and relationship issues. IFS is also user-friendly; it helps you to comprehend the complexity of your psyche. Dr. Earley shows how IFS is a complete method for psychological healing that you can use on your own.Self-Therapy is also helpful for therapists because it presents the IFS model in such detail that it is a manual for the method.

About this title

About the Author

Jay Earley, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, psychotherapist, group leader, author, teacher, web entrepreneur, and theorist.

He is a big-picture thinker and innovative psychological theorist. Jay is known the clarity of his teaching and writing, his creative methods of demonstrating complex ideas, and his detailed description of therapeutic technique.  

Jay focuses on Internal Family Systems Therapy in all aspects of his work. He  teaches courses applying IFS and the Pattern System to specific psychological issues such as procrastination, communication, relationships, and the inner critic. Jay has published other books on IFS, including Freedom From Your Inner Critic, Resolving Inner Conflict, and Working Through Anger in IFS. See personal-growth-programs.com. 

Jay Earley and Bonnie Weiss have published a series of audio products related to IFS, including recorded IFS Courses, IFS Demonstration Sessions, and IFS Guided Meditations. See personal-growth-programs.com/products/

Jay has created the Pattern System, a systematic approach to understanding your personality that can lead directly to psychological healing and personal growth. He has published a series of books based on the Pattern System. See patternsystem.com.

Jay has created Self-Therapy Journey, an online tool for exploring and resolving a wide variety of psychological issues and developing healthy capacities. See selftherapyjourney.com.

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 also published Transforming Human Culture: Social Evolution and the Planetary Crisis and Inner Journeys: A Guide to Personal and Social Transformation. He is a former computer scientist.

From the Back Cover

Dr. Earley's clinical competence and passion for teaching IFS provide an invaluable, user-friendly companion to students and practitioners alike. His clear descriptions, outlines, illustrations, exercises, and transcriptions offer a thorough and systematic contribution to the understanding and application of this magical model for transformation and healing.
-- Laura S. Schmidt, MA, LMFT, Spokane, WA

Jay has a great talent for making complex things easy to understand. The vignettes are very useful in seeing how IFS works in real life. The help sheets are particularly valuable; everyone in the class commented on that. This would be the first book I would recommend people read if they are interested in learning the IFS model.
-- Sandy Therry, M. Couns., Dip Tch., Perth, Western Australia

From the Inside Flap

Jay has the gift of both insight and teaching--and he uses both in his new book. He allows us access to the many layers of our selves and helps us to understand, work with and ultimately feel harmonious with behaviors that have baffled us. Self-therapy is a wonderful cogent guide written by a wonderful cogent teacher.
-- Geneen Roth, author of When Food is Love and Women Food and God

The fact that Jay Earley wrote this book is high praise for the IFS model because he was an accomplished writer and thinker, steeped in systems thinking, long before encountering IFS. Jay's passion has been to introduce IFS to a lay audience in such a way that people can work with their parts on their own--without the need for a therapist. Through Jay's user-friendly description of IFS, you will begin to change how you do "self talk," or internal dialogue. Through well-described experiential exercises and examples of actual IFS sessions, you will be able to enter your inner world in such a way that your extreme parts begin to heal. Rather than just coping with them, you welcome them and transform them into valuable resources.
-- Richard Schwartz, PhD, creator of IFS, from the foreword

Enormously hopeful and empowering, this book illuminates the process of Internal
Family Systems (IFS) as a method of self-therapy that centers on the revolutionary
principle that all of us have a Self. Presenting a view of the human psyche with
this calm, compassionate, curious Self at the center, Jay Earley takes the reader
step-by-step through a method of self-exploration which views overwhelming
emotion and dysfunctional behavior as stemming from parts that are doing their
best to help the person survive. Earley's writing is beautifully organized and clear,
as compassionate and respectful as the process he is teaching, and the reader is
supported and encouraged at every step. Anyone wishing to live a fuller, richer,
more meaningful life, or help others do so, needs to read this book.
-- Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD, author of The Power of Focusing and The Radical
Acceptance of Everything

The non-pathologizing and empowering aspects of the IFS Model find their
ultimate expression in Dr. Earley's book, Self-Therapy. Exercises, illustrations, and
session transcripts supplement this detailed approach for individuals to safely
work alone or with a peer to transform their inner worlds dominated by outmoded
beliefs to lives filled with love, compassion, and connection. Therapists, too, will
appreciate this clear map of the inner territory of the psyche and will find this book
a valuable and accessible resource for their clients.
-- Susan McConnell, senior IFS trainer

Self-Therapy is an invaluable resource, an absolute must for all therapists who want
to move their clients beyond tolerable recovery to a more thorough process of
healing. It is a gift to those of us who want to offer a gentle excavation of wounds
resulting in a beautiful new landscape.
-- Cheryl Ades, LCSW, Louisville, KY

Jay presents an exceptionally clear explanation of the IFS model. He provides
"user friendly" directions on how therapists and clients can use the process. I can
apply it directly from this book.
-- Kevin J Miller, PhD, Florham Park, NJ

Jay has a very thorough understanding of IFS and an uncanny ability to break it
down into small enough chunks to make it accessible to novices while still making
it stimulating for experienced IFS practitioners. Self-Therapy demystifies therapy
and empowers people to work on themselves to expand and heal their lives.
-- Kira Freed, M.A., LPC, CLC, Tucson, AZ

The inside of the psyche is so hard to describe, and Jay does a great job of making it
accessible. The illustrations really helped me to get a visual notion of the concepts.
Self-Therapy describes each idea in many different ways, so that something sticks
for each person. It really adds to the professional IFS literature.
-- Kathy Grace, M.A., LPC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Edition details

• Publisher: Pattern System Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984392777
• ISBN 13: 9780984392773
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 338