by Paul Watzlawick · Piper · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783492221009
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«Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein» is Paul Watzlawick's essay on unhappiness, published by Piper in paperback (132 pages, in German).
With an ironic tone, Watzlawick inverts self-help manuals and describes how one makes oneself miserable: idealising the past, clinging to outdated solutions and attaching importance to trifles. With black humour and a background in the Palo Alto School, he invites readers to recognise these patterns and to distrust the obligation to be happy.
Work originally published in 1983; this Piper edition is from 1988. Volume 2100 of the Piper Series.
A title for those interested in the psychology of communication and in the ironic critique of self-help.
Paul Watzlawick was an Austrian-American family therapist, psychologist, communication theorist, and philosopher. A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. Watzlawick believed that people create their own suffering in the very act of trying to fix their emotional problems. He was one of the most influential figures at the Mental Research Institute and lived and worked in Palo Alto, California.
