Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution

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Why some problems persist while others are resolved. This classic book, available in paperback for the very first time, explores why some people can successfully change their lives and others cannot. Here famed psychologist Paul Watzlawick presents what is still often perceived as a radical idea: that the solutions to our problems are inherently embedded in the problems themselves. Tackling the age-old questions surrounding persistence and change, the book asks why problems arise and are perpetuated in some instances but easily resolved in others. Incorporating ideas about human communication, marital and family therapy, the therapeutic effects of paradoxes and of action-oriented techniques of problem resolution, Change draws much from the field of psychotherapy. Foreword to the paperback edition by Bill O’Hanlon Foreword by Milton H. Erickson Preface PART 1. PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE Chapter 1.     The Theoretical Perspective Chapter 2.     The Practical Perspective PART 2. PROBLEM FORMATION Chapter 3.     “More of the Same” or, When the Solution Becomes the Problem Chapter 4.     The Terrible Simplifications Chapter 5.     The Utopia Syndrome Chapter 6.     Paradoxes PART 3. PROBLEM RESOLUTION Chapter 7.     Second-Order Change Chapter 8.     The Gentle Art of Reframing Chapter 9.     The Practice of Change Chapter 10.   Exemplifications Chapter 11.   The Wider Horizon References Index