Change : principles of problem formation and problem resolution / Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland, Richard Fisch ; foreword by Milton H. Erickson ; foreword to the paperback edition by Bill O'Hanlon.

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Watzlawick, Paul, 1921-2007

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TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2011.Description: xxi, 176 p. ; 21 cmContent type:

text

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9780393707069

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153.4

Contents:

Pt. 1. Persistence and change -- Ch. 1. The theoretical perspective -- Ch. 2. The practical perspective -- Pt. 2. Problem formation -- Ch. 3. "More of the same" or, when the solution becomes the problem -- Ch. 4. The terrible simplifications -- Ch. 5. The utopia syndrome -- Ch. 6. Paradoxes -- Pt. 3. Problem resolution -- Ch. 7. Second-order change -- Ch. 8. The gentle art of reframing -- Ch. 9. The practice of change -- Ch. 10. Exemplifications -- Ch. 11. The wider horizon.

Summary: Why some problems persist while others are resolved. 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 therapeutic effects of paradoxes and of action-oriented techniques of problem resolution, Change draws much from the field of psychotherapy.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Persistence and change --
Ch. 1. The theoretical perspective --
Ch. 2. The practical perspective --
Pt. 2. Problem formation --
Ch. 3. "More of the same" or, when the solution becomes the problem --
Ch. 4. The terrible simplifications --
Ch. 5. The utopia syndrome --
Ch. 6. Paradoxes --
Pt. 3. Problem resolution --
Ch. 7. Second-order change --
Ch. 8. The gentle art of reframing --
Ch. 9. The practice of change --
Ch. 10. Exemplifications --
Ch. 11. The wider horizon.

Why some problems persist while others are resolved.
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 therapeutic effects of paradoxes and of action-oriented techniques of problem resolution, Change draws much from the field of psychotherapy.

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