by Paul Watzlawick · Piper & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783492028356
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«Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein» is the psychology and self-help essay by Paul Watzlawick, published by Piper & Co. in paperback (132 pages, in German).
An ironic essay that turns self-help manuals on their head: it presents itself as a guide to achieving unhappiness. With everyday examples, Watzlawick shows how to make life complicated, sabotage one's own happiness and magnify the trivial, and invites readers to detect these mechanisms in themselves. Metaphors, vignettes and jokes complete its therapeutic undertone.
Paul Watzlawick (1921-2007) was an Austrian psychotherapist and sociologist; the book originally appeared in 1983 and closes with a bibliography (pp. 130-132).
For those interested in psychology, personal development and humor, as well as for those already familiar with the work of Paul Watzlawick.
Paul Watzlawick was an Austrian-American family therapist, psychologist, communication theorist, and philosopher. A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. Watzlawick believed that people create their own suffering in the very act of trying to fix their emotional problems. He was one of the most influential figures at the Mental Research Institute and lived and worked in Palo Alto, California.
