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No Bad Parts

Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Richard Schwartz author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:23rd Nov '23

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The groundbreaking and empowering international bestseller to understand and challenge the destructive behaviours of your multifaceted mind, from the world-renowned therapist.

'Innovative and transformational' - Gabor Maté, bestselling author of When The Body Says No

'Changed my life'
– Dr Rangan Chatterjee, bestselling author of Feel Better in 5 and The Stress Solution

Do you feel stuck in painful patterns, whether it’s a harsh inner critic, self-sabotaging habits, overwhelming emotions or trauma that still shapes your life?

What if there was a way to approach those aspects of you, to free you from the constant inner struggle and find true healing?

In his empowering bestseller, No Bad Parts, Dr Richard Schwartz offers a powerful and compassionate path to emotional healing and inner peace through his groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) model.

Schwartz reveals that we are each born with an 'internal family' of distinct parts within us. Some of our parts can become trapped in destructive patterns, but that learning to relate to each of them with curiosity, respect, and empathy can vastly expand our capacity to heal.

Through clear explanations, practical guidance and moving real-life examples, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model will help you:

Honour and communicate with these ‘parts’


  • Turn the ego, the inner critic and the saboteur into powerful allies

  • Allow you to return to a more whole and harmonious 'Self'

  • Whether you want to release the past, get to know your inner critic or finally stop the cycle of self-sabotage, this empowering and compassionate guide offers a clear pathway toward greater emotional wellbeing, supporting lasting change and improved mental health.

    Praise for No Bad Parts:

    ‘One of the cornerstones of effective and lasting trauma therapy.'?Bessel van der Kolk, bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score

    ‘The most transformational book you'll ever read.'?Dr Lissa Rankin, author of Mind over Medicine

    'An enormous gift - transformative, compassionate, and wise.’ Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart

    ‘Anyone interested in a happier, less conflicted life, should devour this life-changing, pioneering work.' Terry Real, author of The New Rules Of Marriage read more...

    'Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy...has been one of the great advances in trauma therapy. IFS is one of the cornerstones of effective and lasting trauma therapy.' * Bessel van der Kolk, author of THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE *
    'In this highly readable volume, Dr. Richard Schwartz articulates and deftly illustrates his Internal Family Systems model, one of the most innovative, intuitive, comprehensive, and transformational therapies to have emerged in the present century.' * Dr Gabor Maté *
    'This may be the most transformational book you'll ever read.' * Dr Lissa Rankin, author of MIND OVER MEDICINE *
    'An enormous gift - transformative, compassionate, and wise. These simple and brilliant teachings will open your mind and free your spirit and your heart.' * Jack Kornfield, author of A PATH WITH HEART *
    'No Bad Parts is, I believe, Richard Schwartz's clearest, most comprehensive, and most inspiring manifesto. Anyone interested in IFS, indeed anyone interested in a happier, less conflicted life, should devour this life-changing, pioneering work.' * Terry Real, author of THE NEW RULES OF MARRIAGE *
    'In this well-written book, Richard Schwartz offers the basics of IFS, a series of exercises to help you learn to relate in an open and compassionate way to all - even your most dreaded and extreme - inner parts, and the fascinating spiritual implications of IFS. This approach will change everything about how you relate to yourself and to others!' * Diane Poole Heller, author of THE POWER OF ATTACHMENT *

    ISBN: 9781785045110

    Dimensions: 215mm x 134mm x 18mm

    Weight: 242g

    240 pages