🔼: [[Books - Nonfiction]] # The Mosaic Mind - Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors --- Author(s):: [[Regina A. Goulding]], [[👤 Richard Schwartz]] Release Date:: 2001 My Rating:: Bookshop:: Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link Amazon:: [Affiliate Link](https://amzn.to/3zEFMT8) > [!warning] Trigger Warning > I haven't read it, but I've been told this book can be quite triggering. ## Subject Matter - [[⭐️ Internal Family Systems]] - [[💡 Trauma]] - [[💡 Complex PTSD]] - [[💡 Parts]] ## Description From the IFS Institute's store: In this book, Goulding and Schwartz offer an important addition to the increasingly popular and practical focus on resources upon which adult survivors of childhood abuse draw to get through traumatic and challenging experiences - resources which, today, continue to be available as essential tools in masterful living. As I read the case history that underpins much of The Mosaic Mind, I appreciated the honest and creativity Schwartz has brought to the development of his Internal Family Systems model. In it, he has expanded our understanding of working with parts - in both client and therapist alike - and added to the means by which these parts may be involved in the therapeutic journey in positive and creative ways. From Amazon: As a window into the human psyche, the authors use one abuse survivor's extraordinary journal entries, in which her inner dialogues are dramatically revealed. This survivor (a legal client of the first author and a therapy client of the second author) takes the reader on a remarkable odyssey. Her narrative brings the IFS model to life. Reading her story we learn how the human psyche overcomes even the most severe traumas and emotional injuries. From the IFS perspective, the survivor's symptoms - the inability to trust anyone, the compulsive self-soothing or self-punishment, the pervasive sense of shame and badness, the hidden rage - are all seen not as symptoms of psychopathology, but as heroic efforts by warring subpersonalities to protect the core Self from the destructive effects of the abuse. The authors provide guidelines for accessing this core Self, undamaged in even the most severely abused individuals. With the Self in the lead, survivors can release their parts from (description ends)