Integrative Life Center’s Lecture Series presents Castlewood
Treatment Center for Eating Disorders
New Innovative Therapies: Internal Family Systems Therapy for Treatment of Eating Disorders presented by: Dr. Mark Schwartz Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) is a potent approach to eating disorders that allows therapists and their client’s access to the exiled parts of clients that are frozen in scenes of trauma or neglect that contribute to and maintain eating disorder symptoms. Fundamental to IFS, is the concept that everyone has parts (sub-personalities) that are in different levels of integration. When exiled parts feel witnessed by the client's Self (a core of qualities like calm, compassion, and courage), they let go of the extreme beliefs and emotions that drive the eating disorder and transform. Clients emerge from this therapy feeling like they healed themselves and with a new awareness of how to relate internally to their parts in a way that is calming and generates trust in their Selves. Participants will: 1. Learn basic interventions of Internal Family Systems theory and how to apply these interventions to clients with eating disorders. 2 Gain knowledge about potential developmental factors and traumas that contribute to the development and maintenance of eating disorder behaviors. 3. Gain knowledge about the development of “self” and how Internal Family Systems and Attachment theories can be applied to client’s development of self.
Mark F. Schwartz, Sc.D. earned his doctorate in Psychology and Mental Health from Johns Hopkins University. He is a licensed psychologist, an adjunct professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at St. Louis University School of Medicine, and formerly the Executive Director of the Masters and Johnson Institute and Inpatient treatment programs, nationally recognized for their innovative treatment with trauma survivors. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Schwartz has achieved national recognition for his contributions in a variety of clinical areas, including the treatment of intimacy disorders, marital and sexual dysfunction, sexual compulsivity, sexual trauma and eating disorders. He lectures nationally on these topics and has authored numerous articles and book chapters, including the books, Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders and Gender and Sexuality. Dr. Schwartz is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Eating Disorders. Currently, Dr. Schwartz is Director of Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders and Trauma and the Relational and Sexual Therapy Program of Missouri.
Castlewoodtc.com
1104 16th Avenue S. Nashville, TN 37212
July 7, 2011 9:00 till 12:00 3 CE’s offered Register Now
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