Peoplemaking
Virginia Satir's book on family systems, a revision of her earlier Conjoint Family Therapy written for families themselves rather than clinicians. She treats self-worth, communication, rules and the link to the wider society as the four things that determine whether a family works, and describes the survival stances, placating, blaming, computing, distracting, that people fall into under stress. Exercises throughout. Foundational for family therapy and unusually warm in tone.