Glossary
This is a glossary of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of the mind and psychotherapy, plus the related concepts and techniques you may find in our writing and beyond.
We wrote it because we kept using words like “unblending” in articles and then spending a paragraph explaining them. Now we link to the terms here instead.
It is not authoritative. We are not the IFS Institute: we are the people who explore IFS well beyond the therapy room. We are the people who run participatory and inclusive events with no keynote speakers, and who write articles that at times go beyond the serious-only context of IFS. We have opinions, we share them and hope that we can have meaningful conversations with those who read them.
Other glossaries exist, and some are better sourced. This one is ours, which mostly means it matches how we actually talk.