by Paul Watzlawick · Editorial Herder · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425414299
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«El arte de amargarse la vida» is the satirical essay by Paul Watzlawick, published by Editorial Herder in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
With irony, Paul Watzlawick uses metaphors, anecdotes and jokes to analyze how one becomes an obstacle to one's own happiness. The anecdote of the man who needs a hammer and gets tangled up in assumptions about his neighbor illustrates that misinterpretations, fears and expectations can embitter life more than facts.
Work originally published in German as Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein (1983); translated from German by Xavier Moll.
Suitable for readers interested in psychology and philosophy who appreciate irony and the paradoxes of human behavior.
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.
