The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication

ISBN-13: 9780393310207 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 186 str.

Paul Watzlawick

Opis

Dr. Watzlawick suggests that rather than following the usual procedure of interpreting the patient's communications and thereby translating them into the language of a given psychotherapeutic theory, the therapist must learn the patient's language and make his or her interventions in terms that are congenial to the patient's manner of conceptualizing reality. Only in that way, he shows, can the therapist effectively bring about genuine changes and problem resolutions. Drawing on the work of Milton H. Erickson, he supports his findings with many (and often amusing) examples This book, then, is a virtual introductory course to the grammar and language of the unconscious

O autorze

Paul Watzlawick, geb. 1921 in Villach/Kärnten, Studium der Philosophie und Sprachen. Psychotherapeutische Ausbildung am C. G. Jung-Institut in Zürich. 1960 war er Professor für Psychotherapie in El Salvador; seit 1960 ist er Forschungsbeauftragter am Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto/Kalifornien. Außerdem lehrte er an der Stanford University. 2007 verstarb Paul Watzlawick.