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As he begins this book, the author muses about the fate of Macbeth at the hands of the three witches. Their strategies led to his downfall, and--though much refined due to modern technology--are in force today. The urge for ultra-solutions has been with us since unrecorded time, and the witches are always there to offer sinister encouragement.

Sure-fire candidates for ultra-solutions emerge in such chapters as "Twice as Much Is Not Necessarily Twice as Good," "Good Can Be Bad," "Nonzero-Sum Games," "Brave Digitalized World," and "I Know Exactly What You're Thinking." Other chapters...

Paul Watzlawick klärt auf unkonventionelle und amüsante Weise darüber auf, was die sogenannte Wirklichkeit tatsächlich ist. Denn sie ist keineswegs das, was wir naiv »Wirklichkeit« zu nennen pflegen, sie ist vielmehr das Ergebnis zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation, was Watzlawick mit vielen verblüffenden Beispielen belegt.

Paul Watzlawick hat mit seiner »Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein« einen Millionenbestseller geschrieben - was nur den Schluss zulässt, dass Leiden ungeheuer schön sein muss. Anders als die gängigen »Glücksanleitungen« führen Watzlawicks Geschichten uns vor Augen, was wir täglich gegen unser mögliches Glück tun. Nach der Lektüre werden auch Sie begreifen, warum Sie den Nachbarn, den Sie um einen Hammer baten, am liebsten erschlagen würden.

This classic book, available in paperback for the very first time, explores why some people can successfully change their lives and others cannot. Here famed psychologist Paul Watzlawick presents what is still often perceived as a radical idea: that the solutions to our problems are inherently embedded in the problems themselves.

Tackling the age-old questions surrounding persistence and change, the book asks why problems arise and are perpetuated in some instances but easily resolved in others. Incorporating ideas about human communication, marital and family therapy, the...

This book examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological "realities" are constructed, after which we naively assume they are the "real" realities. Contributors include Ernst von Glaserfeld (known for his cognitive studies with chimpanzees); cybeneticist Heinz von Foerster; David L. Rosenhan (author of On Being Sane in Insane Places); microbiologist Francisco J. Varela; and Gabriel Stolzenberg, professor of mathematics at Northeastern University. Paul Watzlawick has contributed commentary, an introduction and an epilogue, and two of the ten essays.

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