by Paul Watzlawick · Herder Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425423307
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«El arte de amargarse la vida» is the psychology essay by Paul Watzlawick, published by Herder Editorial in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
The book takes as its starting point the story of a man who needs a hammer and, before asking his neighbour for it, has already invented a conflict that does not exist. From that everyday scene, Watzlawick ironically analyses the mechanisms by which one makes one's own life miserable and suggests observing them with detachment.
Translation by Xavier Moll of the German original «Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein»; work originally published in 1983.
For readers of psychology and personal development who appreciate irony and humour as a path to reflection.
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.
