Paul Watzlawick Quotes

Paul Watzlawick — Austrian Psychologist born on July 25, 1921,

Paul Watzlawick was an Austrian-American family therapist, psychologist, communications theorist, and philosopher. A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. Watzlawick believed that people create their own suffering in the very act of trying to fix their emotional problems. He was one of the most influential figures at the Mental Research Institute and lived and worked in Palo Alto, California... (wikipedia)

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Paul Watzlawick Quotes

Paul Watzlawick Quotes

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