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A psychology thesis has recently been published on the Relational Intelligence® model. The author is Alexandra Roveda, Clinical Psychologist. Here's a summary below, which you can access and read in our new «Resources» section «Background - Traditional psychotherapies for the treatment of traumatic after-effects are neither tolerated nor appropriate [...].

"More than 160 academics and professionals working in the fields of childhood, healthcare and justice, including Dr François Le Doze, lawyer Dominique Attias and psychiatrist Thierry Baubet, have written an article for the French newspaper "Le Monde", reminding everyone of the urgent need to [...].

Self Thérapie Formation is evolving. Discover our new website! You'll find several new features on our new pages, including: A fresh, optimized design Easier creation/modification of therapist presentation pages, via your personal account on this site. Improved visibility for therapists in the directory, whether in the [...]

Both biological and psychological life are subject to the law of homeostasis. This law postulates that systems, whether biological or psychological, seek to return to equilibrium when disturbed. In this way, blood glucose levels always return to 1 g/L, some time after they have been raised by the ingestion of food. [...]

By ceasing to conceive of our inner world as a block, the IFS model gives it relief, contours, shapes, colors, faces and movement. It admits a truth that we all perceive without accepting: we are plural, i.e. made up of a very large number of parts. More than [...]

Thanks to this article in this month's PSYCHOLOGIES, the IFS model is about to pass a milestone in its visibility to the public, whether therapists or people seeking treatment. It's a great joy for me to see how far I've come since I started out in 2003, joined by so many [...].

SELF THERAPIE FORMATION had the privilege of enabling Toni Herbine-Blank to give her teaching program called IFIO to French-speaking couples therapists already trained in IFS (from May 18 to 22). The program is based entirely on IFS principles. It includes additions drawn from Herbine-Blank's extensive experience as a couples therapist [...].

Here is the full interview given by Dr. Le Doze to the May 2016 issue of «Psychologies» magazine. Overcoming our inner conflicts, freeing ourselves from the burdens of the past to rediscover the pleasure and power of being ourselves. Unhindered. That's what Internal Family Systems (IFS) is all about. This therapy, developed thirty years ago in the United States by Richard Schwartz, a doctor of family and marriage therapy, does not [...].

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Testimonial from therapist Mercedes Schaffter.

Article published in LE FIGARO on January 24, 2011 Download PDF.

This article was published in the Journal of Self Leadership, 2006. Download the PDF.

Article published in the daily newspaper LE TEMPS on January 20, 2012 Download PDF.

I had the privilege of presenting the IFS model on April 7, 2016, at the invitation of the Ligue Française pour la Santé Mentale, for a conference entitled «IFS Approach to Dissociation». The welcome was very warm and the questions numerous. I wrote an article in connection with this conference, which will be published in a book [...].

On Saturday April 11th, the IFS model arrived in the Auvergne Rhône Alpes region. Accompanied by Anne Borel, Tiphaine Jullian and Suzanne Simon, I had the pleasure of presenting the principles of the model and sharing my experience with an open and demanding audience from Lyon and the Drôme. Thanks to Liz [...]

Pixar's new film "Vice-Versa" delves deep into the inner workings of its characters to capture the debates that take place there. A vision akin to a psychotherapeutic model in vogue, the Inner Family System. An imp on one shoulder, a little angel on the other. Cartoons have long been fond of illustrating the [...]