Your Many Faces [Paperback]

Virginia M. Satir (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Celestial Arts (November 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890871205
• ISBN-13: 978-0890871201
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,098 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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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Woman, May 19, 2000

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M. Doyle "Maril Lynne" (Mt. Shasta, California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Many Faces (Paperback)

Virginia Satir is well known to family therapists and in NLP communication classes. Her way is one of putting you at ease and giving you credit for all that you are. I came upon this book quite by accident and discovered simplicity and elegance within a message that could have been written just today. Virginia teaches working with the parts that make up each individual and she embraces that each person is unique. Virginia is gone now but the work that she did comes through on the pages of this one simple book, she was an incredible woman indeed.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Satir Basics, April 1, 2000

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jbw "jojobigeyes" (San Francisco CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Many Faces (Paperback)

This easy to read book is a great introduction to the works of Virginia Satir. It is full of information that is useful to both Therapists and general readers. The illustrations by the author make the book fun to read and easy to understand. Readers who enjoy this book will probably want more depth that can be found in other books by Satir.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Gem, September 14, 2007

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John (LONDON, England United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Many Faces (Paperback)

This paperback edition is almost 30 years old, yet I have never read anything so clear and sure-footed about the subjective world of awareness and unawareness. Virginia Satir's extended analogy, which is most of the book, delights and astonishes me: we see our sub-personalities as players in a theatre first introduced and then playing a particular drama and resolution that the author thinks it might help us to see - such effectiveness; simplicity and kindness is surely hard-won. I cannot respect it enough.