Books like Making contact by Virginia Satir

In Games People Play, Eric Berne examines how people engage in unconscious psychological games that shape everyday interactions and often lead to self‑destructive patterns.

Learn how to express feelings and needs without hostility, fostering empathy and compassion in personal, professional, and political conversations.

A practical guide for boys on building confidence and respectful communication with girls, covering self-image, personal presentation, and healthy interaction skills.

Virginia Satir teaches practical, step‑by‑step communication techniques that transform families into nurturing, self‑actualizing units, emphasizing personal healing, forgiveness, and clarity in parent‑child relationships.

Learn to listen, assert, and resolve conflict with practical techniques that improve every personal and professional relationship by overcoming common communication barriers.

A self‑help guide from Virginia Satir that explores how to understand and accept the many facets of one’s own personality, empowering readers to achieve greater self‑perception and self‑actualization.

"We live, says Ed Schein, in a culture of Tell. Rather than trying to genuinely relate to other people we tell them what we think they need to know or should do based on assumptions we've made about them. But telling makes people feel inferior--it shuts them down. This is particularly true of interactions between superiors and subordinates, and that's where it's particularly problematic. In today's complex, interconnected, rapidly changing world hierarchy means nothing--anybody anywhere could have that vital fact or insight that could mean the difference between success or disaster. A free flow of information is crucial. Humble Inquiry builds the kinds of positive, trusting, balanced relationships that encourage honest and open interactions in both our professional and personal lives. Schein defines Humble Inquiry as "the fine art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person." In this seminal work he explores the concept of humility, looks at how Humble Inquiry differs from other kinds of inquiry, offers examples of Humble Inquiry in action in many different settings, and shows how to overcome the cultural, organizational and psychological barriers that keep us from practicing it. This is a major new contribution to how we see human dynamics and relationships, presented in a compact, personal, eminently practical way"-- "From one of the true giants in organizational development, career development and organizational psychology comes a simple and effective technique for building more positive relationships--particularly between people of different status--that will lead to more honest and open interactions and stronger organizations"--

Virginia Satir offers a concise exploration of self-worth, guiding modern readers toward a clearer sense of identity amid societal complexity.

This text sheds light on how people work - why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows: how these patterns originate in people's self-theories; their consequences for the person - for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations; and the experiences that create them. Throughout, Dweck shows how examining self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development. This text is a must-read for researchers in social psychology, child development, and education, and is appropriate for both graduate and senior undergraduate students in these areas.