by Paul Watzlawick · Piper Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783492249386
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«Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein» is the essay by Paul Watzlawick, published by Piper Verlag GmbH in hardcover (134 pages, in German).
With irony and black humor, Watzlawick turns self-help manuals on their head: through stories and everyday examples, he shows the mental traps and self-destructive behaviors with which one sabotages one's own happiness. The work invites readers to recognize themselves before an uncomfortable mirror and to ask how to become happily unhappy.
The book was originally published in 1983; the German 2007 edition is the 31st edition.
Aimed at readers of psychology and philosophy who appreciate irony and black humor as a way of reflecting on happiness and self-help.
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.
