satir

Satir is a surname. The most widely known bearer is Virginia Satir (1916–1988), an American psychologist noted as a leading figure in the development of family therapy. She helped popularize family systems approaches and the Satir Growth Model, a framework used to improve communication and personal growth within families. While the surname appears in various languages and contexts, its prominence in English-language psychology literature is closely tied to her work.

In Turkish, the transliterated form satir corresponds to the word satır, meaning line or row, typically used in written text. In Turkish orthography, satır is written with a dotless i and is used in phrases such as satır başı (start of a line) and satır sonu (end of a line). The ASCII form satir is common in contexts where Turkish diacritics are not used, such as in programming, file names, or older texts.

Outside of these usages, Satir may appear as a surname in other cultures, but Virginia Satir remains the most frequently cited figure in English-language sources. The term is distinct from satyr, the mythological creature of classical literature, though the two words may be confused in spelling.