Making Contact [Paperback]

Virginia M. Satir (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Celestial Arts; 1 edition (November 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890871191
• ISBN-13: 978-0890871195
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

VIRGINIA SATIR (1916-1988) was a pioneering psychotherapist, lecturer, and author; she was internationally renowned for her work, especially in the field of family therapy. Considered one of the most distinguished therapists in recent history and selected to be on the boards of numerous prestigious councils, Satir was also known for her Change Process Model, still embraced today. Time magazine once wrote of her, "She can fill any auditorium in the country." She cofounded the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, the first organization to establish a formal training program in family therapy.

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Informative book on an important topic, June 17, 2002

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Britt Arnhild Lindland (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Contact (Paperback)

Making Contact is a book written for everybody, easy to read and easy to understand.

Virginia Satir has been working with people all her life, and in this book she shares her information and knowledge with us. The book is about how we can develope more self knowledge. We don't need to do dramatic changes, small steps in our everyday lives are more important.

Feelings are the essence of our lives, be honest, take the chance to learn about your own feelings, why they are like they are, how to show them more freely, not to hide them. Learn to live with your feelings, to be the person you are deep inside. We need and deserve love and respect from ourselves as an encouragement to keep on living the life we are meant to live.

The book is very informative, and I can hear Satir's voice through the pages. The topic is difficult to show in such a small book though. I have never met Virginia Satir, but I think that her ideas would be much more understandable if I had heard it from her, they become too flat, too two dimensional in a book. And most of the chapters are too short. I would prefere more examples. Still the book is very good and has helpful information for all people in the prosess of making contact with each other.

Britt Arnhild Lindland

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This little book is a classic, July 10, 2010

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Dr. John H. Patton (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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I delighted to be able to obtain this classic little book through the dependable Amazon source. I have used this book in classes and with psychotherapy patients for many years, and it's good to be able to continue that practice. I wish someone would be wise enough to reprint it. I may may some effort to get it done myself.

5.0 out of 5 stars HEALTHY COMMUNICATION, January 5, 2012

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Terry P. Ware "TeeReader" (Pell City, AL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making Contact (Paperback)

An older book and still a classic for effective, healthy communication. Most of us manipulate without even realizing it. Virginia Satir's easy to understand text and illustrations illuminate the problem areas and offer workable solutions without judgment. Resolve ANY communication or relationship issue by starting here--personal, career, everywhere.