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Virginia Satir (June 26, 1916 – September 10, 1988) was an American author, clinical social worker and psychotherapist, [1] recognized for her approach to family therapy. Her pioneering work in the field of family reconstruction therapy [ 2 ] honored her with the title "Mother of Family Therapy".
The foreword to the first volume was written by Virginia Satir and the introduction by Gregory Bateson. According to psychiatrist [ 5 ] Robert S. Spitzer, after months of careful listening and transcribing Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir working with clients, Bandler began to incorporate the speech patterns and mannerisms of these therapists ...
The inner team is a modification of the "parts party", a method from systemic family therapy, which was developed by Virginia Satir in the 1970s. Additionally, his model draws upon the interacting parts of the personality within a human being that, amongst others, have been described by Margaret Paul and Erika J. Chopich.
[3] [4] [5] Carl Whitaker and Virginia Satir are credited as the founders of co-therapy. [6] [7] Co-therapy dates back to the early twentieth century in Vienna, where psychoanalytic practices were first taking place. [8] It was originally named "multiple therapy" by Alfred Alder, and later introduced separately as "co-therapy" in the 1940s. [9]
Two methods of couples therapy focus primarily on the process of communicating. The most commonly used method is active listening, used by the late Carl Rogers and Virginia Satir. More recently, a method called "Cinematic Immersion" has been developed by Warren Farrell. Each helps couples learn a method of communicating designed to create a ...
This is reasonably clear in the case of face-to-face communication. As Virginia Satir has pointed out, people cannot help but communicate symbolically (for example, through their clothing or possessions) or through some form of body language. In messages that are conveyed by the telephone, a messenger, or a letter, the situation or context in ...
Virginia Satir, the wellspring of family systems theory, who knew Bateson, viewed the identified patient as a way of both concealing and revealing a family's secret agendas. [6]
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder's 1975 book The Structure of Magic I. NLP asserts that there is a connection between neurological processes, language and acquired behavioral patterns, and that these ...