Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution by Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland and Richard Fisch

Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution
Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland and Richard Fisch

Format: Paperback, 220pp.
ISBN: 9780393707069
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date: April 25, 2011

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Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution deals with the age-old questions of persistence and change in human affairs. More particularly, it is concerned with how problems arise, and how they are perpetuated in some instances and resolved in others. Most of all, it examines how, paradoxically, common sense and "logical" behavior often fail, while actions as "illogical" and "unreasonable" as thos taken by the defenders of Hochosterwitz succeed in producing a desired change.

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• "We find that in deliberate intervention into human problems the most prqagmatic approach is not the question why? but what?; that is, what is being done here and now to effect a change?" Pg. 86

About the Authors

Paul Watzlawick is a research associate at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, and clinical professor at the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center. John Weakland has a private practice in Palo Alto, specializing in marriage, family, and child counseling. Richard Fisch is a psychiatrist with a private practice in Palo Alto.

Table of Contents

	Foreword by Milton H. Erickson	ix
	Preface	xi
	Part One: PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE
1	The Theoretical Perspective	1
2	The Practical Perspective	13
	Part Two: PROBLEM FORMATION
3	"More of the Same" or, When the Solution Becomes the Problem	31
4	The Terrible Simplifications	40
5	The Utopia Syndrome	47
6	Paradoxes	62
	Part Three: PROBLEM RESOLUTION
7	Second-Order Change	77
8	The Gentle Art of Reframing	92
9	The Practice of Change	110
10	Exemplifications	116
11	The Wider Horizon	158
	References	161
	Author and Subject Index	169

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