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r/InternalFamilySystems · 2021

Most-mentioned books in r/InternalFamilySystems during 2021

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/InternalFamilySystems within the published source unit for 2021. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Books ranked
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Tracked mentions in 2021
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Cover of Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness Using IFS #1

Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness Using IFS

Jay Earley

Jay Earley writes a step-by-step manual for talking to your own internal parts, and r/internalfamilysystems says it beats anything IFS's own founder ever published.

15 in 2021
Cover of No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model #2

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Richard C. Schwartz

A therapist explains why the voice in your head that hates you is just another part trying, badly, to protect you.

11 in 2021
Cover of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors #3

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

Janina Fisher

A trauma therapist argues the parts of you that feel broken are actually surviving, and gives you a framework to stop fighting them.

5 in 2021
Cover of Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving #4

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

Pete Walker

Pete Walker names a fourth trauma response beyond fight, flight, and freeze: fawn, the instinct to appease the person who's hurting you.

2 in 2021
Cover of You Are the One You've Been Waiting For #5

You Are the One You've Been Waiting For

Richard C. Schwartz

Richard Schwartz applies IFS to intimate relationships, arguing that the partner you keep seeking to fix you is a part of yourself.

2 in 2021
Cover of Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation #6

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation

Suzette Boon

A skills workbook for patients and clinicians treating trauma-related dissociation, built around structured exercises and psychoeducation about dissociative parts.

1 in 2021
Cover of Flow #7

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Csikszentmihalyi spent decades interviewing artists to explain why total immersion in hard work beats effortless pleasure every time.

1 in 2021
Cover of The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization #8

The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization

Onno van der Hart

A structural dissociation textbook by van der Hart, Nijenhuis, and Steele that clinicians recommend alongside EMDR and parts-work training.

1 in 2021
Cover of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook #9

The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook

Kristin Neff

A structured workbook for turning self-criticism into self-kindness, used in r/InternalFamilySystems to address inherited shame and emotional pain.

1 in 2021