| Description |
xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
What's your family like? -- Self-worth: The pot nobody watches -- Self-worth: the source of personal energy -- Your self Mandala -- Communication: Talking and listening -- Patterns of communication -- Communication games -- The rules you live by -- Systems: open or closed? -- The couple: architects of the family -- Special families -- Your family map -- The can of worms in action -- The family blueprint -- Some essential blueprint ingredients -- family engineering -- The extended family -- The life cycle -- Adolescence -- Positive pairing -- Spirituality -- The later years -- The family in the larger system -- Peace within, peace between, and peace among -- The family of the future |
| Summary |
Revised and expanded seminal work on families, with more than a million copies sold in 12 languages. The New Peoplemaking expresses Satir's most evolved thoughts on self-worth, communication, family systems, and the ways in which people relate to one another. Drawn on Satir's lifetime of experience with thousands of families around the world, it is written in the engaging style for which she is famous. --Publisher |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Rev. ed. of: Peoplemaking |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-393) and index |
| Subject |
Communication in families -- United States.
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Families -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Families.
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Family psychotherapy.
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Interpersonal relations.
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Parent and child -- United States.
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Family.
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Interpersonal Relations.
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Communication.
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Counseling.
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Family Therapy.
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Family -- psychology.
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Parent-Child Relations.
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| Author |
Satir, Virginia.
Peoplemaking
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| LC no. |
88061241 |
| ISBN |
0831400706 |
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9780831400705 |
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