TY - BOOK AU - Watzlawick,Paul AU - Weakland,John H. AU - Fisch,Richard TI - Change: principles of problem formation and problem resolution SN - 9780393707069 U1 - 153.43 WAT PY - 2011/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - W.W. Norton & Co. KW - Problem solving KW - Change (Psychology) KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Problem Solving KW - fast N1 - Updated pbk. ed. of: Change : principles of problem formation and problem resolution. 1974; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Why some problems persist while others are resolved. This classic book 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 ER -