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Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

Salvador Minuchin

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

Salvador Minuchin

In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.

Salvador Minuchin

Salvador Minuchin

Salvador Minuchin

Born: October 13, 1921

Died: October 30, 2017 (aged 96)

Bio: Salvador Minuchin was a family therapist born and raised in San Salvador, Entre Ríos, Argentina. He developed structural family therapy, which addresses problems within a family by charting the relationships between family members, or between subsets of family.

Known for:

Families & family therapy (1974)
Family therapy techniques (1981)
Psychosomatic families (1978)
Mastering family therapy (1996)
Family kaleidoscope (1984)

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