Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts cover art

Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts

Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts

By: Richard C. Schwartz
Narrated by: Richard C. Schwartz PhD
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £25.99

Buy Now for £25.99

Only £0.99 a month for the first 3 months. Pay £0.99 for the first 3 months, and £8.99/month thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Start my membership

About this listen

Explore your multifaceted mind - an invitation to personal healing and spiritual awakening

Inside each of us, there are many distinct selves. “Though we’ve been raised to believe that healthy people have a single ‘self’”, explains Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, “acknowledging our multiplicity gives a far deeper awareness of how our minds actually work.” Dr. Schwartz’s pioneering Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy has become renowned in psychotherapy for its power to help us connect with and heal the many distinct facets - or parts - of our psyche. With Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, he brings you a practical training course for using this method for your growth, well-being, and especially your spiritual journey.

Embracing your inner diversity as a path to wholeness

One of the key lessons of IFS therapy is that there are no bad parts. “Trauma or life experience can cause our parts to take on burdens”, says Dr. Schwartz. “Yet when we bring the spiritual values of curiosity, gratitude, and kindness to these burdened parts, we discover incredible opportunities for healing and awakening.” Through instruction and guided meditations, Dr. Schwartz shows us how to engage even the most disturbing or unwanted parts of our psyche with openness and love - so we may unlock the hidden gifts and wisdom each part contains.

Many forms of therapy and even spiritual practice inadvertently put us in conflict with ourselves as we try to transcend or reject our parts. With Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, Dr. Schwartz invites you to embrace each of your many parts with self-compassion - and discover the inclusive greater Self that is your true, divine nature.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2018 Richard C. Schwartz (P)2018 Sounds True
Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Family Systems Theory

Listeners also enjoyed...

Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy cover art
Self-Therapy, 2nd Edition cover art
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors cover art
Befriending Your Nervous System cover art
Anchored cover art
A New Earth cover art
Healing Trauma cover art
Healing Developmental Trauma cover art
The Untethered Soul cover art
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy cover art
Letting Go cover art
Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma cover art
Becoming Safely Embodied cover art
The Heart of Trauma cover art
The Mindful Therapist cover art
Happy Days cover art
All stars
Most relevant
In this workshop, the founder of IFS, Richard Schwartz, explores ways of using IFS in our own internal worlds. He gives some theory and also guides you through meditations to get to know your own inner parts and ways of working with them, so that through practice, you can learn how to live a Self-led life. I have listened to it twice and keep returning to the meditations. I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in exploring IFS.

Indepth Study of IFS

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

IFS is totally ground-breaking and this book is an amazing way to get into the material. the guided meditations are done at a pace that allows for ones inner process to unfold and i will use them again and again. Thanks Dick (And Sounds True)

Fantastic book. Love you Dick!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This is life changing information for many. I have listened twice and each time my understanding increases. Thank you Richard Schwartz.

Brilliant work

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This is actually an online, self led therapy course which includes the explanation of the approach used - Internal family systems. IFS has allowed me to really process feelings in a way that traditional therapy has only arrived at rationally. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Amazing combination of theory and practice

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I think this is very well presented, however as I rarely have time to sit and do the exercises I feel that I did not get the full benefit from them. For me this book needs to be listened to at a slower pace when you have time to sit down with it.

Great book, but you need time to do the exercises.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews