Are “denial” and “anger” our first protectors?

Another occasional article in support of Internal Family Systems (IFS).

Below is revised-adapted from from http://stevewasserman.co.uk/therapy/internal-family-systems-ifs/ un-dated

The original author, Steve Wasserman, was invited to comment. He replied but declined to engage one way or another.

I was looking for: “Internal Family Systems” (IFS) “denial and anger” as protectors

An article by Steve Wasserman in the UK, a therapist trained in both Schema Therapy and IFG, was top-rated. I saw he was strengthening several weak areas of IFS rhetoric.

When I find new language on a topic needing more new rhetoric, like IFS, I sometimes bring it into word processing to revise, so I can learn from it, see if it expands naturally. This went well. I prefer to leave the original author as author. Technically I am the “editor” or this paraphrases Steve’s original post.

While Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) grew out of Family Systems therapy, IFS was first and primarily developed for therapy and self-healing of individuals.

Considering both IFS and Schema Therapy, another clarification is, although created by different people, the two share so many similarities, it hardly makes sense (to me) to separate them as two different therapeutic methods.