Radikaler konstruktivismus paul watzlawick biographies

Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (1921–2007)

Paul Watzlawick (July 25, 1921 – March 31, 2007) was an Austrian-American family therapist, psychologist, communication theorist, and philosopher.

A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy.

Radikaler konstruktivismus paul watzlawick biographies

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.

Early life and education

Paul Watzlawick was born in Villach, Austria in 1921, the son of a bank director.^[1] After he graduated from high school in 1939, Watzlawick studied philosophy and philology at the Università Ca' Foscari Venice and he earned a PhD (doctor of philosophy degree) in 1949.

He then studied at the Carl Jung Institute in Zürich, where he received a degre