WRITER

Virginia Satir

1916 - 1988

Virginia Satir

Virginia Satir (June 26, 1916 – September 10, 1988) was an American author, clinical social worker and psychotherapist, recognized for her approach to family therapy. Her pioneering work in the field of family reconstruction therapy honored her with the title "Mother of Family Therapy". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Virginia Satir has received more than 548,786 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Virginia Satir is the 950th most popular writer (down from 794th in 2019), the 1,069th most popular biography from United States (down from 922nd in 2019) and the 106th most popular American Writer.

Virginia Woolf was a British author and essayist. Her most famous work, "A Room of One's Own," is a feminist essay about the need for women to have a place to call their own.

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550k
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8.12
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Notable Works

Your many faces

1978

En Contacto Intimo

1997

Conjoint family therapy

Family psychotherapy

1964

The new peoplemaking

1988

Self esteem

1975

Peoplemaking

Families

1972

Conjoint family therapy

Family psychotherapy

1964

Satir step by step

Psicoterapía familiar, Family psychotherapy, Psicoterapia familiar

1983

The Use of self in therapy

Self, Ego, Psychotherapy

1987

Conjoint family therapy

Family psychotherapy, Psychotherapy, Gezinstherapie

1964

The new peoplemaking

Interpersonal relations, Family, Parent and child

This book is about powerful communications between family members. By communications you can create nurturing environment for all members to flourish. To reduce misunderstanding. It teaches you the love yourself and ways to first concentrate on yourself to be healthy then helping others. The basic message has been and is that a strong link exists between life in the family and the kind of adults that family's children become. Since individuals make up society, it seems very important that we develop the strongest and most congruent people possible. It has metaphors to make the complex concepts understandable. It has steps for figuring things out. Like first step is to detect and change recognize what is happening. Talks about the characteristic of the nurturing family and how to get there. It also identifies trouble families and how to avoid to become one. 1) Recognize family sometimes trouble family 2) You need to forgive yourself for past mistakes. Give yourself permission to change, know that things can be different. 3) Make decisions and change things 4) Take action to start the process of change. It has detail steps to achieve the nurturing family and being self-actualized. Virginia Satir is one of the most power healers and her work and psychotherapy practices has helped thousands of family to become nurturing families. Her passion and love shines through every word and every page. It warms your heart, as healer that really cares about you giving you advice in the very simple language.

1988

Helping families to change

Family Therapy, Family psychotherapy, Group psychotherapy

1972