The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication
- ISBN-10
- 0393310205
- ISBN-13
- 9780393310207
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 172
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Paul Watzlawick
Description
In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communication and communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the way therapists use language. Although communications emerging in therapy are ascribed to the mind's unconscious, dark side, they are habitually translated in clinical dialogue into the supposedly therapeutic language of reason and consciousness. But, Dr. Watzlawick argues, it is precisely this bizarre language of the unconscious which holds the key to those realms where alone therapeutic change can take place.
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