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Making Contact
The path to better communication begins with learning about contact. You have eyes, ears, feelings, speech, thought, movement, actions through which you make contact with yourself and with others. Very often people ignore the essence of this process. In Making Contact Virginia Satir brings into focus how you can use all these elements, how things got this way and, above al...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
November 1st 1995
by Celestial Arts
(first published 1976)
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This is a slim book addressing the problems people have communicating with each other. It's simple and straightforward. It is mostly pertinent to couples, but also applies to any two people trying to communicate. Satir first talks about why our communication is often bad, and how everyone suffers as a result. She stresses the importance of having self-esteem, and then introduces her 5 freedoms: seeing and hearing what is here, saying what one thinks and feels, feeling what one feels, asking for...more
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Virginia Satir (26 June 1916 – 10 September 1988) was an American author and psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy and her work with Systemic Constellations. She is widely regarded as the "Mother of Family Therapy" Her most well-known books are Conjoint Family Therapy, 1964, Peoplemaking, 1972, and The New Peoplemaking, 1988.
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