Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir
Virginia Satirwas an American author and social worker, known especially for her approach to family therapy and her work with family reconstruction. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth26 June 1916
CountryUnited States of America
Virginia Satir quotes about
recovery okay
I am me and I am okay.
way responsible feels
It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
children nice parenting
It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.
blessing giving support
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.
jobs children two
Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.
problem symptoms deeper
The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.
emotional jail people
Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
simple training together
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
giving persons i-can
The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
people trying tunes
As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
parenting past parenthood
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
feelings faces defense
The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
teacher jobs children
Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.
problem coping
Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.