The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication - Couverture souple

Watzlawick, Paul

 
9780393310207: The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0393310205 ISBN 13 : 9780393310207
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 1993

Synopsis

In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communication and communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the way therapists use language. 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393310205
ISBN 13 
9780393310207
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
186
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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9780465037926: Language Of Change

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0465037925 ISBN 13 :  9780465037926
Editeur : Basic Books, 1978
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