Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick , born on July 25th, 1921 with Villach (Austria) and dead on March 31st, 2007 with Palo Alto (California) is a theorist in the Communications theory and the radical Constructivisme. Psychological, Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst and Sociologist, his work concerned family Thérapie and the general Psychothérapie.

Biography

During the Second world war, Paul Watzlawick, political prisoner in Germany, escapes and is collected by the British. At the end of the war, it is demobilized in Italy and enters the police services of the town of Trieste.

In 1949, it obtains its doctorate in modern languages and philosophy with Venice where it studied logic (influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege and Kurt Gödel). From 1949 to 1954, it is formed at the institute Carl Jung in Zurich, then obtains a station for the United Nations in Italy. After a stay in Bombay, Watzlawick teaches the Psychanalyse and the Psychothérapie at the university of El El Salvador of 1957 to 1959.

In 1960, it goes to Philadelphia to study the therapeutic approach of John Rosen in Institute for Direct Analysis. It is there that it meets Ray Birdwhistell and Albert Scheflen. This last presents it to Donald D. Jackson and in 1961 Watzlawick joined the Mental Research Institute off Palo Alto.

Works

Year Anthology off Human Communication, Text and Slap , 1964, Science and Behavior Book, foreword of Gregory Bateson
With Janet H. Beavin and Donald D. Jackson, a logic of the communication , 1967, Norton, transl. Threshold, 1972
has review off the Double Bind Theory, in Jackson Human Communication: Communication, Family and Marriage , 1968, Science and Behavior Book
With John Weakland and Richard Fisch, Changes: paradoxes and psychotherapy , 1974, Norton, transl. Threshold, 1975
the reality of reality: Confusion, misinformation, communication… , 1976
With John Weakland, On the interaction , 1977, Norton, transl. Threshold 1981. Several articles of Donald D. Jackson
the language of the change includes/understands. Elements of therapeutic communication , 1978, transl. Threshold, 1980
the invention of reality, Contributions to the constructivism , 1981. Several authors under the direction of Paul Watzlawick, in particular Ernst von Glasersfeld and Heinz von Foerster, transl. Threshold, 1985 réed. 1984 and Made transl. 1988
yourselves your misfortune , 1983, Norton, transl. Threshold 1985. A parody of the books of practical advices
How to succeed in failing , 1986, Norton, transl. Threshold 1988
the hair of the Baron de Munchausen , 1988, transl. Threshold 1991
Guide non conformist for the use of America , Threshold, 1987
With Giorgio Nardone, the art of the change: strategic therapy and hypnothérapie without fright , 1990, transl. the spirit of time, 1993
With Giorgio Nardone, Strategies of the Short Therapy , 1997

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