Richard Schwartz is the founder and developer of Internal Family Systems therapy, which he created in the 1980s while working as an associate professor at the University of Illinois. He holds a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University and is a Teaching Associate in Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. He has authored more than ten books on IFS including No Bad Parts and Internal Family Systems Therapy.
Specialties
Depth orientation
As the creator of IFS, Richard Schwartz developed a model that parallels many depth psychology principles: a multiplicity of mind, the existence of an archetypal Self, the concept of exiled parts carrying burdens from the past, and the healing power of witnessing and unburdening -- themes resonant with Jungian and psychoanalytic traditions.