About this episode

Jeremy discusses the evolution of therapeutic frameworks and their potential cult-like characteristics.

This week Jeremy takes a look at what happens when therapeutic frameworks evolve from useful models into systems of certainty. Jeremy uses Internal Family Systems (IFS) founder Richard Schwartz (among others) as an example of how authority, insider language, and resistance to criticism can emerge in therapy communities just as they do in religious and ideological movements. Rather than asking whether a popular therapy modality is a bit culty, we ask the more important question of what happens...

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Schumacher

Topics covered

• therapeutic frameworks
• Internal Family Systems
• authority in therapy
• criticism in therapy communities
• cult-like behavior in therapy

Keywords

• therapy
• Internal Family Systems
• Richard Schwartz
• authority
• criticism
• cult
• therapeutic models

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