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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

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

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

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

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

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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