Internal Family Systems Therapy, also called Parts Work and IFS for short, is gaining widespread popularity in addictions and mental health treatment. IFS is on the rise, not only because it has earned a spot on the list of the so-called “evidence-based” approaches favored by regulators, which always gives a healing modality a boost in visibility, but because it’s intuitively appealing and even, sometimes, fun.
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Free Play Human life has largely been stripped of true, free play. For adults, the word play has almost negative associations, as if frivolous. Relegated to a domain of less…