How Real is Real?: Confusion, Disinformation, Communication
- ISBN-10
- 0394722566
- ISBN-13
- 9780394722566
- Category
- Social Science / Sociology / General
- Pages
- 266
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Author
- Paul Watzlawick
Description
The connection between communication and reality is a relatively new idea. It is only in recent decades that the confusions, disorientations and very different world views that arise as a result of communication have become an independent field of research. One of the experts who has been working in this field is Dr. Paul Watzlawick, and he here presents, in a series of arresting and sometimes very funny examples, some of the findings.
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