Family Reconstruction: Long Day's Journey Into Light

Abstract

William F. Nerin is a psychotherapist with over 20 years experience, and in this book he describes his use of Virginia Satir's approach to family reconstruction. It is largely a quasi-psychodramatic approach, and I am reviewing this book for a reading audience that is primarily psychodramatic in nature.

Apparently, in her later years, Satir, an internationally recognized leader in the field of family therapy, developed this more systematic approach that integrates psychodramatic methods with her concepts of individual and family psychodynarnics. I am saddened to have to note that Ms. Satir, who wrote the foreword to this book not long before her death, made no mention of her debt to psychodrama literature. Indeed, I found only four references in this entire book (aside from Satir's foreword).