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And I suppose that before I leave this world, one thing that I would wish for all the world to know, is that human contact is made by the connection of skin, eyes, and voice tone. These are the things that taught us before we had words. How our parents touched us, how they looked at us, what their voices sounded like, were all recorded in us.
Virginia Satir (1989)
Certain attitudes pervaded everything Virginia Satir did. Knowing some of these essential elements of her work provides a useful orientation for understanding the verbatim transcript that appears in the next chapter. However, some readers may prefer to go through the transcript first without preconceptions and then return to consider the views presented here.
This chapter briefly describes sixteen major patterns of Virginia's work. Specific examples are provided, to avoid the ambiguities that pervade most descriptions of therapy. All examples or quotations are taken either from the transcript of a family session published in Satir Step by Step (Satir and Baldwin, 1983) or from the Satir videotape set Family Relationships (1989). The sequence in which the major elements appear is arbitrary and does not indicate relative importance.
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