Building on Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS), therapist Herbine-Blank created Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) specifically for couple’s therapy. She and her co-authors present this
book as a roadmap for therapists who want to learn and to apply her curriculum, whose ultimate goal is for the couple to understand that relationships are a collaborative creation and that
sharing responsibility provides a solid basis for beginning again. Included is the Seven Steps to Authentic Repair. Twelve chapters are divided into three phases: beginning; the flow and eddies
of the middle; ending. Chapters are: the origins of intimacy from the Inside Out Therapy; getting to know the couple and introducing the model; tracking cycles; courageous communication;
individual work; countertransference in couple therapy; negotiating needs; you, me, we? negotiating corresponding needs that conflict; shaming and feeling shamed in couple therapy; deepening
experiential work; what makes a difficult case difficult?; repairing relationship rupture. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
