In this study of pragmatic (behavioral) effects of human communication, disturbed behavior is seen as a communicative reaction to a particular situation rather than evidence of the disease of an indi
In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communicationand communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the waytherapists use language.
Do you see the past through a rosy filter that makes it seem like Paradise Lost? Are you convinced that traffic lights always turn red for you? Do you have to win (so as not to lose)? After extricati
In his international best seller, The Situation Is Hopeless, But Not Serious, Paul Watzlawick showed us how to become unhappiness experts. Now in a new volume he turns to our strivings for ultra-solut
This multidisciplinary approach to the study of reality examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological "realities" are constructed and views reality as invented rather than discovered
Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster enables therapists to walk into difficult situations with a thorough understanding of interactional dynamics and a plan of action.Wit
The late psychologist Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, and Richard Fisch, who worked together at the Mental Research Institute, offer this reprint (2007) that explores why some can change their lives and
