Salvador Minuchin Quotes

• 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

  Two, Identity, Culture

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Love, Life, Family

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• Certainty is the enemy of change.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Enemy, Certainty

  Salvador Minuchin, Michael D. Reiter, Charmaine Borda (2013). “The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties”, p.4, Routledge

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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

  Children, Land, Strange

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Life, Relationship, Family

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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