2025-03-03
2 小时 13 分钟Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science based tools for everyday life.
I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
My guest today is Dr. Richard Schwartz.
Dr. Richard Schwartz is the founder of Internal Family Systems Therapy, which is a unique form of therapy that's less centered on your relationship to other people, but instead focuses mainly on identifying the parts of yourself and your personality that tend to emerge in different situations and that tend to create anxiety, resent or depression.
Another key feature of internal family systems therapy is that it's not just focused on fixing challenges within us, it also teaches you how to grow your confidence, openness and compassion.
Now, today's episode is different than any other episode of the podcast that we've done before.
And that's for two reasons.
First, Dr. Schwartz takes me through a brief session of IFS therapy so you can see exactly what it looks like in practice.
And then he takes you, the listener, through it as well.
So as you'll soon observe and experience, internal Family systems therapy allows you to work through challenging sticking points, basically the parts or feelings within you that you don't like to have.
And then it shows you how to convert those feelings into more functional aspects of yourself.
So, as you'll soon see, Internal Family Systems Therapy is both super interesting and it's an incredibly empowering practice.
It's also a form of therapy that's now been studied and for which there's a lot of peer reviewed science to support its efficacy.
By the end of today's episode, Dr. Dick Schwartz will have shown you that a lot of the negative reactions that we tend to have with different people and things tend to originate from a few basic patterns that once we understand, we can really transmute into more positive responses.
It's a really interesting practice.
It's one that you can apply today during the episode, and that you can return to in order to apply going forward in your life.
Before we begin, I'd like to emphasize that this podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford.
It is, however, part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to consumer information about science and science related tools to the general public.
In keeping with that theme, this episode does include sponsors.
And now for my discussion with Dr. Richard Schwartz.