The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication

by Watzlawick, Paul
ISBN: 9780393310207
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Overview


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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Watzlawick, Paul
  • ISBN: 9780393310207
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 186
  • Publication Year: 1993