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Title: Change; Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution by Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, Richard Fisch ISBN: 0-393-01104-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
Comment: Knowing the difference between first-order change, and second-order change can change your life! See if you can figure this out: "It obviously makes as difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that rules are 'real' only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them." This is pretty much what this book is about. And this, "When a person enters therapy, he is fully entrenched in a dilemma: what he wishes to attain has become all the more important and urgent ... and because of this urgency it is all the more important that no risk of falure be involved in the eventual action." Complex stuff. I read it once, and now I'm back to read it again. It's hard to absorb it all the first time even though you know you're reading some pretty radical stuff that you probably ought to be acting upon!
Rating: 5
Summary: I've wondered why Logical Change fails. - Now I Know
Comment: Over the last 15 years I have been involved with organizations undergoing major change. For all of those years I have tried to discover why change, that appears so essential to these companies, fails most of the time. I have searched for years for a logical answer.
I happend to notice the title of this book at a donated book sale at our local library.... I picked it and others up and proceeded to add it to the pile of books I would some day scan. On a long business flight I started to read this book.
I could not stop. As the authors laid out their ideas I covered the pages with notes.
Finaly a logical explanation of why change, even obviously necessary change, fails. Even more the begining of a method on how to make it work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mindboggling!
Comment: This is a great book on the mind. It shows us that we don't really need to know the mechanisms of things to make it work. Just like we don't have to know how a car works in order to drive it. The mind is the same way. Never mind the mechanisms it involves but if you do this and this, a person will do this and this. And surprisingly, although most of the suggestions are counterintuitive, most of the things discussed in the book actually work when we try it out on others. Try it and you will see! If you want to know why these things work, I'd suggest you read "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato. It is a very insightful book about relationships and consciousness. If you get the message, you will know why the things suggested in Watzlawick's books actually work. Happy reading!
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Title: The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication by Paul Watzlawick ISBN: 0393310205 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious (The Pursuit of Unhappiness) by Paul Watzlawick ISBN: 0393310213 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes by Paul Watzlawick ISBN: 0393010090 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1967 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson ISBN: 0226039056 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: 10 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Foundations of Family Therapy: A Conceptual Framework for Systems Change by Lynn Hoffman ISBN: 046502498X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: July, 1981 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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