Virginia Satir, an internationally renowned educator and master therapist and a pioneer in the field of family therapy, altered the way therapists are taught and patients are treated. This landmark volume focuses on the important contributions that she made to the therapy profession. Written and edited by therapists who trained and worked closely with her, Virginia Satir: Foundational Ideas reflects her most basic ideas about the healing quality of respect for all people and the emphasis on the personal aspects of treatment rather than the technical. It also addresses the necessity of emotional honesty between the therapist and the patient and illustrates these therapists' impact on therapy as it is practiced today. It is necessary reading for all professionals around the world who seek to better understand the therapy process and the keys to its success.

Contents
Introduction

• Methods for Connectedness: Virginia Satir's Contribution to the Process of Human Communication
• Theory and Practice of the Satir System
• The Triadic Concept in the Work of Virginia Satir
• Virginia Satir's Triad Theory for Couples Therapy
• Enhancing the Marital Relationship: Virginia Satir's Parts Party
• Increasing Couple Intimacy Using Virginia Satir's Temperature Reading
• Family Reconstruction: The Masterpiece of Virginia Satir
• Virginia Satir's Process of Change
• Peoplemaking: Self Esteem or Shame?
• Experiential Learning: Reflections on Virginia Satir and Eugene Gendlin
• Satir's Formula for Therapeutic Endurance: The Wonderful Human Being Myth
• An Essay of Virginia Satir
• Healing Virginia
• The Dying Process of a Conscious Woman--Virgina Satir
• Virginia Satir Bibliography
• Index