Books on Satir

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The Satir Journal: Transformational Systemic Therapy

Volume 2, No.1, 2008

Suicide Prevention Using the Satir Model - Dr. John Banmen R. Psych. RMFT
Couple Congruence and Spirituality in the Satir Model: Part II - Dr. Steve Bentheim, Ph.D
From Caterpillar to Butterfly: Action Research Study of a Satir-Based Women's Program in Taiwan - Dr. Yang Pei, Ph.D., National Taipei University
"Insights" - An Aboriginal Experience of Transformation by Jack McDonald

$25.00 Purchase
116 pages, 6 x 9, ISSN 1718-2050, paperback

Volume 2, No. 2, 2008

Reflections: the Oral History of Virginia Satir - an Interview with Dr. Bunny Duhl - C. Jesse Carlock, Ph.D.
Therapists' Experience Using Satir's Personal Iceberg Metaphor - Wendy Lum, M.A., R.C.C., R.M.F.T.
A Personal Journey through the Grief and Healing Process with Virginia Satir - Sharon Blevins, M.A.
"Insights" - Call me an Angel by Linda E. Roberts

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124 pages, 6 x 9, ISSN 1718-2050, paperback

Applications of the Satir Growth Model

Edited by Dr. John Banmen

This book is a compilation of the Applications of the Satir Growth Model in the present day and within different areas of human behavior. Besides the "practical how" to, you will also find in the introduction as well as in each chapter, the Satir belief supporting the application. This book is a good resource for anyone - student, teacher and practitioner who (as stated in the preface) would like to be "more penetrating and impactful in ways that build and sustained improvements in mindfulness, health, connection, creativity, and productivity" for self and for others.

Table of Contents:

Satir Model Universality and Cross-Cultural Applicability
The Satir Process of the Satir Model
Suicide Prevention Using the Satir Model
Learning, Teaching and Practicing the Satir Growth Model
Building Healthy Self Identity in Gays and Lesbians
Say It Straight Training
A Learner's Guide to Sculpting in Family Therapy
Application of the Satir Model in Hong Kong Schools
Family Reconstruction: Challenging the Process of Change
The Development of the Self-Esteem Sculpt
The Power of the Unconscious Mind and Family Reconstruction
Temperature Reading
Virginia Satir's Five Freedoms and Self-Care
An Overview of the Satir Mandala: A Teaching and Therapy Tool
Beyond Blaming: Congruence in Large Systems Development

$35.00 Purchase

260 pages, 6 x 9, ISBN 0-9729867-3-1, paperback

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SATIR Transformational Systemic Therapy

Edited by Dr. John Banmen

Virginia Satir's approach to therapy helped people change at a deep level, and this book sheds light on how that works. Most of these chapters first appeared in one of the best-selling issues ever of the journal Contemporary Family Therapy. A special edition devoted to current applications of the Satir model of family therapy, it offered international perspectives on various issues, from congruence to positive psychology, and from Family Reconstruction to spirituality.

Cross-cultural counseling, treating suicidal youth, and working with survivors of sexual abuse also feature here, as does the therapist's use of him- or herself as part of this systemic approach to counseling.

Critiquing, developing, and adapting the Satir model characterize chapters in this book. In his preface, John Banmen describes the evolution of that model over the past twenty years.

Dr William C Nichols, former president of both the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and of the International Family Therapy Association writes in the foreword "Virginia Satir--one of the few persons who generally would be recognized in the field simply by the utterance of her first name--...with a mixture of awe, questions, and intrigued interest..." After Virginia died, "the expressions were uniformly those of bereavement, loss, affection, and respect." Readers who do not already share such feelings may experience several glimpses of them as they enjoy this book.

$29.95 Purchase

249 pages, 6 x 9, ISBN 978-0831400927, paperback

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Enriching Your Relationship with Yourself and Others

Based on the Teachings of Virginia Satir

by Sharon Loeschen, LCSW

Enriching Your Relationship with Yourself and Others is organized around the inner resources that Virginia Satir emphasized in her work with each section of the book focusing on one resource - Ability to Make Contact, Ability to Breathe Consciously, Ability to be Aware, Ability to Explore, Ability to Grow and Change, Ability to Choose, Ability to be Courageous, Your Many Parts, Ability to be Compassionate and Loving, Ability to Feel, Ability to Use Your Mind, Ability to Express Yourself, Ability to Have Fun and Be Humorous, Ability to be Wise, Ability to be Accepting of Yourself and Others, Ability to be In Charge of You, Your Hopes and Wishes, and Your Sense of Worth. Each section has samples and asks you to reflect on each resource.

A training program by the same title is being offered and further information is available through the Satir Global Office or contact the office at 206.241.7566

$25.00 Purchase

77 pages, 5.5 x 8, ISBN 0-9729867-1-5, paperback

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Virginia Satir: Her Life and Circle of Influence

Edited by Melvin M. Suhd, Laura Dodson, and Maria Gomori

"Virginia Satir" by Barbara Jo Brothers (chapter one) in Virginia Satir: Her Life and Circle of Influence provides us with a fully researched, documented and engaging biography of Virginia, the person and the professional.

The following nine chapters included in the book are autobiographies of individuals whose lives were linked to and profoundly influenced by their experiences with Virginia, their mentor and friend.

"Dreams Unfold a Life" by Laura Dodson, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
"Passage to Intimacy: The advent of Super Education" Lori Gordon, Ph.D., originator of PAIRS
"A Fortunate Life" Bob Spitzer, M.D., author of View From Space
"Finding Freedom" by Maria Gomori, MSW, Satir teacher & author
"Toward a Politics of Self-Esteem: John Vasconcellos, renowned California legislator. Written by Diane Dreher
"Starting from Within, Here and Now" by Jean McLendon, MSW, Satir consultant & trainer
"Memories, Myths, and Metaphors" by Bud Baldwin, M.D., Professor of Medicine
"My Connection with Virginia" by Margarita Suarez, RN, director of Avanta
"Blossoms A Long the Trail" by Barbara Jo Brothers, MSW, therapist & author

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534 pages, 6 x 9, ISBN 0-8314-0087-0, paperback

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The Satir Process

by Sharon Loeschen

The Satir Process is a highly practical manual for making contact, validating, facilitating awareness, promoting acceptance and making changes, this book summarizes superbly the philosophy of Virginia Satir. Ideal for students.

$25.00 Purchase

110 pages, 5.5 x 8, ISBN 0-9641340-0-4, paperback

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Virginia Satir: Brief Account of Her Life and Legacy