Pragmatics of human communication :
Watzlawick, Paul, 1921-2007
Pragmatics of human communication : a study of interactional patterns, pathologies and paradoxes / Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, and Don D. Jackson. - New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, c2011. - 284 p. ; 21 cm.
Contains a glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. The frame of reference --
Ch. 2. Some tentative axioms of communication --
Ch. 3. Pathological communication --
Ch. 4. The organization of human interaction --
Ch. 5. A communicational approach to the play Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? --
Ch. 6. Paradoxical communication --
Ch. 7. Paradox in Psychotherapy --
Epilogue: Existentialism and the theory of human communication: an outlook.
Forms the foundation of much contemporary research into interpersonal communication, in addition to laying the groundwork for context-base approaches psychotherapy; presenting the simple but radical idea that problems in life often arise from issues of communication, rather than from deep psychological disorders, reinforcing their conceptual explorations with case studies and well-known literary examples.
9780393710595
Communication
302.2
Pragmatics of human communication : a study of interactional patterns, pathologies and paradoxes / Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, and Don D. Jackson. - New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, c2011. - 284 p. ; 21 cm.
Contains a glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. The frame of reference --
Ch. 2. Some tentative axioms of communication --
Ch. 3. Pathological communication --
Ch. 4. The organization of human interaction --
Ch. 5. A communicational approach to the play Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? --
Ch. 6. Paradoxical communication --
Ch. 7. Paradox in Psychotherapy --
Epilogue: Existentialism and the theory of human communication: an outlook.
Forms the foundation of much contemporary research into interpersonal communication, in addition to laying the groundwork for context-base approaches psychotherapy; presenting the simple but radical idea that problems in life often arise from issues of communication, rather than from deep psychological disorders, reinforcing their conceptual explorations with case studies and well-known literary examples.
9780393710595
Communication
302.2