The Language of Change Elements of Therapeutic Communication [Paperback]

Although communications emerging in therapy are ascribed to the mind's unconscious, dark side, they are habitually translated in clinical dialogue into the supposedly therapeutic language of reason and consciousness. But, Dr. Watzlawick argues, it is precisely this bizarre language of the unconscious which holds the key to those realms where alone therapeutic change can take place.Lucid, responsible, and tremendously enriching. In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communicationand communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the waytherapists use language.