by Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson · Herder Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425412059
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This book, written by Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, and Don D. Jackson, is a fundamental work in the study of interpersonal relationships. The authors, researchers at the Mental Health Institute in Palo Alto, California, and collaborators of Gregory Bateson's team, explore the pragmatics of interpersonal communication from a systemic perspective. It analyzes the general theoretical aspects of human communication, as well as behavioral disorders, with examples and analogies. The book examines the importance of paradox and contradiction in communication, both in pathology and therapy, and compares communication theory with the existential point of view.
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.
