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Virginia Satir

1916 - 1988

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Virginia Satir (June 26, 1916 – September 10, 1988) was an American author, clinical social worker and psychotherapist, recognized for her approach to family therapy. Her pioneering work in the field of family reconstruction therapy honored her with the title "Mother of Family Therapy". Her best known books are Conjoint Family Therapy, 1964, Peoplemaking, 1972, and The New Peoplemaking, 1988. She is also known for creating the Virginia Satir Change Process Model, a psychological model developed through clinical studies. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Virginia Satir is the 949th most popular writer, the 1,324th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,069th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular American Writer.

Virginia Woolf was a British author and essayist. Her most famous work, "A Room of One's Own," is a feminist essay about the need for women to have a place to call their own.

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Among writers, Virginia Satir ranks 949 out of 7,302. Before her are Jules Renard, Philostratus, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Emma Orczy, Prudentius, and Percy Fawcett. After her are Lucius Accius, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Samuel Butler, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, George Steiner, and Ernesto Sabato.

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Among people born in 1916, Virginia Satir ranks 42. Before her are Abdul Rahman Arif, Robert F. Furchgott, Bernard Lewis, Emil Gilels, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, and Masaki Kobayashi. After her are Marcel Cerdan, Peter Weiss, Peter Finch, Amha Selassie, C. Wright Mills, and Raf Vallone. Among people deceased in 1988, Virginia Satir ranks 27. Before her are Klaus Fuchs, Roy Orbison, Chet Baker, Hiroaki Sato, Kim Philby, and Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad. After her are Raymond Carver, Richard S. Castellano, Felix Wankel, Clifford D. Simak, Luis Barragán, and Franz Josef Strauss.

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Among people born in United States, Virginia Satir ranks 1,324 out of 20,380. Before her are Big Show (1972), Martha Graham (1894), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Michael Kors (1959), Stanley Miller (1930), and Laurence Fishburne (1961). After her are Jennifer Jones (1919), Donald Rumsfeld (1932), Helen Wills (1905), James B. Conant (1893), Condoleezza Rice (1954), and Thomas Huckle Weller (1915).

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Among writers born in United States, Virginia Satir ranks 103. Before her are MacKenzie Scott (1970), Ida Tarbell (1857), Joseph Campbell (1904), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Daniel Keyes (1927), and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900). After her are Horatio Alger (1832), John Updike (1932), John Fante (1909), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Ambrose Bierce (1842), and Raymond Carver (1938).

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