Dr. Schwartz started out working as a family systems therapist before creating IFS. In 1981, he gathered together about 30 bulimic kids and their families to try to prove that the structural strategic family therapy worked. He found they would keep binging and purging to his frustration so he began asking why. And then he learned to not keep trying to get my clients to fight with a critic or control the binge some point but help them just be curious in a kind of mindful way like your father does.

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