ABSTRACT
Comment on an interview conducted with Virginia Satir by Sheldon Starr (1985). Included is a discussion on the relationship between the training of psychotherapists and avoiding wars. Not thinking of people as objects has enormous implications; mutual respect is the operative ingredient.
This chapter explores of what makes the human union last - and last on a constructive and enriching track as opposed to being locked into the slow death of a pact born of a balance of mutual misery. It presents the exploration and fostering of human bonding and enhancing of intimacy between the dyad, the world stands witness to the antithesis of human bonding, the ultimate in human estrangement war. Mega-level war. Virginia Satir expresses that the world needs the information about human dynamics that the mental health professions have distilled is increased in poignance, the USA having just begun to lead a multi-nation allied war against the leader of Iraq. Joining all human beings, sharing the common humanity - expanding the essential tribal mentality to include the entire race as one tribe - cuts through artificial divisions of nationality, social class, and the more subtle, finely tuned, but equally 'class-ist' hierarchal attitudes distinctions of client or patient versus therapist.
