# Richard Schwartz Richard "Dick" Schwartz developed (discovered?) [[⭐️ Internal Family Systems]]. Schwartz worked with developmental trauma and [[💡 Complex PTSD]] for 20 years[^1] and was doing so while developing the model. He's a student of [[👤 Ken Wilber]].[^2] Dick's father was a respected endocrinologist and comes from a scientific family. He considers himself a phenomenologist and empiricist. [Richard Schwartz on Insight Timer](https://insighttimer.com/drrichardschwartz) ## Books - [[📖 Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition]] - [[📖 🟢 No Bad Parts - Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model]] - [[📖 Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual - Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse]] - [[📖 🟠 Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy - Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement, and Touch in Practice]] - [[📖 Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts - Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy]] - [[📖 You Are the One You've Been Waiting For (Internal Family Systems)]] - [[📖 The Mosaic Mind - Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors]] - [[📖 Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model]] [^1]: [[📖 ✅ IFS Online Circle]] Month 1: Overview of IFS & The Flow of the Model [^2]: https://centerforintegralwisdom.org/thought-leader-dialogues/ifs-integral-and-unique-self/