by Paul Watzlawick · tapa dura · ISBN 9783492049887
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«Gebrauchsanweisung für Amerika» is Paul Watzlawick's travel guide, published by Piper in hardback (159 pages, in German).
With an ironic and irreverent tone, Watzlawick describes everyday scenes, habits and contradictions of American society, and offers practical advice for getting by in the country. The book proposes a personal reading of US culture from a European perspective.
The volume includes black-and-white drawings by Magi Wechsler. The ISBN-10 of the edition is 3492049885.
For readers interested in travel writing, American culture and humorous observations on cultural differences.
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.
