by Paul Watzlawick · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020069922
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«Faites vous-même votre malheur» is Paul Watzlawick's satirical essay, published by Seuil in paperback (119 pages, in French).
The book inverts the logic of self-help manuals: instead of teaching how to be happy, it offers an ironic guide to being unhappy. With anecdotes and everyday examples, Watzlawick shows how idealizing the past, clinging to outdated solutions, or seeking trivial conflicts feeds discontent, and parodies the promises of personal improvement.
Original German title: Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein. The work appeared in 1983; the French edition, in 1984.
A suitable read for those who appreciate psychology, philosophy, and satire of self-help books.
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.
