CHANGE PA

by Watzlawick, Paul; Weakland, John H.; Fisch, Richard; Erickson, Milton H.; O'Hanlon, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780393707069
• ISBN10: 0393707067
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-25
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This classic book deals with the age-old questions of persistence and change. It asks how problems arise and are perpetuated in some instances, but in other instances are resolved. It examines how, paradoxically, common sense and logical approaches often fail while seemingly "illogical" and "unreasonable" actions succeed in producing the desired change.

Author Biography

Paul Watzlawick, who died in 2007, was an internationally-known psychologist. An expert in human communication, he was one of the most influential members of the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, CA. John Weakland, who died in 1995, was a Senior Research Fellow at MRI. Richard Fisch is a psychiatrist with a private practice in Palo Alto, CA.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the paperback edition	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Persistence and Change
The Theoretical Perspective	p. 3
The Practical Perspective	p. 14
Problem Formation
ôMore of the Sameö or, When the Solution Becomes the Problem	p. 31
The Terrible Simplifications	p. 40
The Utopia Syndrome	p. 47
Paradoxes	p. 61
Problem Resolution
Second-Order Change	p. 75
The Gentle Art of Reframing	p. 90
The Practice of Change	p. 108
Exemplifications	p. 115
The Wider Horizon	p. 155
References	p. 159
Index	p. 167
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