by Paul Watzlawick · Herder Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425410826
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«¿Es real la realidad?» is the communication and psychology essay by Paul Watzlawick, published by Herder Editorial in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
Paul Watzlawick explains that reality is constructed in communication and that paradoxes and contradictions generate confusion and misinformation. He analyzes the double bind theory, disturbed behavior as a response to communicative situations, and therapeutic implications, with examples such as «¿Quién teme a Virginia Woolf?».
Translation from German by Marciano Villanueva Salas. First edition published in Barcelona.
For general readers interested in psychology, communication, and human relationships; the work presents the concepts in an accessible and colloquial style.
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.
