The Language of Change - Elements of Therapeutic Communication

Informationen zum Autor Paul Watzlawick was an associate at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, and clinical professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford University Medical Center. An internationally known psychologist, Watzlawick died in 2007. Klappentext Although communications emerging in therapy are ascribed to the mind's unconscious, dark side, they are habitually translated in clinical dialogue into the supposedly therapeutic language of reason and consciousness. But, Dr. Watzlawick argues, it is precisely this bizarre language of the unconscious which holds the key to those realms where alone therapeutic change can take place. Dr. Watzlawick suggests that rather than following the usual procedure of interpreting the patient's communications and thereby translating them into the language of a given psychotherapeutic theory, the therapist must learn the patient's language and make his or her interventions in terms that are congenial to the patient's manner of conceptualizing reality. Only in that way, he shows, can the therapist effectively bring about genuine changes and problem resolutions. Drawing on the work of Milton H. Erickson, he supports his findings with many (and often amusing) examples. This book, then, is a virtual introductory course to the grammar and language of the unconscious. Zusammenfassung In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communicationand communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the waytherapists use language.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Watzlawick, Watzlawick Paul
• Editore: Norton and Co Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.08.1993
• EAN: 9780393310207
• ISBN: 978-0-393-31020-7
• Dimensioni: 141 mm x 209 mm x 13 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Popular psychology, Psychology: states of consciousness, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Communication Studies, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, States Of Consciousness