Paul Watzlawick - Publications

Publications

Watzlawick wrote 22 books that were translated into 80 languages for academic and general audiences with more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters. Books he has written or on which he has collaborated include:

• An Anthropology of Human Communication, 1964
• Pragmatics of Human Communication, 1967, OCLC 168614
• Change: Principals of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution (with John Weakland and Richard Fisch), 1974, OCLC 730810, W W Norton page
• How Real Is Real?, 1976, OCLC 1818442
• The Language of Change, 1977, OCLC 3609867, W W Norton page
• Gebrauchsanweisung für Amerika, 1978
• The Situation Is Hopeless, But Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness, 1983, OCLC 9464987, W W Norton page
• The Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? (Contributions to Constructivism), 1984, OCLC 9412760
• Ultra-Solutions, or, How to Fail Most Successfully, 1988, OCLC 16682320
• The Interactional View: studies at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, 1965-1974, 1977
• Munchausen's Pigtail and other Essays, 1990

-Paul Watzlawick and John H. Weakland, ed. & comm. published “The Interactional View: studies at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, 1965-1974." James Charney, a student in the School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry from Yale University stressed that the book was considered to be a measure of progress in the study of family dynamics and suggested the expanding breadth of the field in its clear definition of the significant corner occupied by the communication theorists. Nodding to the works of Don Jackson, the central figure at MRI, Watzlawick and Weakland mention his works on schizophrenia and the “double-bind” hypothesis, as well as several articles describing new approaches to therapy. Charney also stated, “The Interactional View belongs in any collection of family therapy literature.”