Reddit reviews Internal Family Systems Therapy (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)
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I’m reading the seminal work on it right now: Internal Family Systems by Dick Schwartz. It’s a good place to start.
Internal Family Systems is a theory that human minds consist of parts that have their own independent will and drive. Yes it's also useful as a therapy model, but it's not a symptom of illness.
This book gives the best overview of the system
https://www.amazon.ca/Internal-Systems-Therapy-Richard-Schwartz/dp/1572302720
And here's a brief description of the theory
https://www.selfleadership.org/outline-of-the-Internal-family-systems-model.html
Hope this is useful
https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Family-Systems-Therapy-Guilford/dp/1572302720
The author is Richard Schwartz.
How well do you think you have sorted out your childhood neglect and how long did it take you? How old are you?
What I can tell you is that there are parts of your mind that are angry and frustrated because those parts believe that being so will help you in some way. Figuring out what those parts have to say is totally possible. Here are a couple books that I can suggest that have tools in them to help with just such a process:
Focusing by Gendlin is really great. I linked the audiobook version which you can listen to in like an hour, although the text is just as good: https://www.amazon.com/Focusing/dp/B006H9RQ6Y/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
IFS is another technique that really gets into dialoging with the different parts of your mind. IFS stands for Internal Family Systems: https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Family-Systems-Therapy-Guilford/dp/1572302720/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474851623&sr=1-1&keywords=internal+family+systems
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I've not read the IFS book I linked, so it may be hard to read or something. One thing you can do with both IFS and Focusing is just google it a whole bunch--I bet you can get the gist of it without buying anything at all.
You're not broken. There are tools and people that can help you. You've got this.