Internal Family Systems has become a wildly popular form of therapy over the past few years. Some of my friends swear by it. But after trying IFS myself and studying some of its underlying assumptions, I’m skeptical.  I shared some of the reasons for that skepticism in a recent installment of my Your Mileage May Vary advice column. I noted that IFS is being used to treat all kinds of psychiatric conditions, even though its scientific foundation is shaky. Yet there’s no question that this therapy, which teaches that we’re each made up of a bunch of different parts and insists that the...

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