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    <![CDATA[ Nein, bei Sachbüchern geht es so nicht. Sprecher erzählender Werke dürfen durchaus einmal sinnwidrig betonen. Man verkraftet es, wenn aus &quot;und er folgte(betont) ihr&quot; ein &quot;und er folgte ihr(betont)&quot; wird. Bei einem argumentierenden Text dagegen muss das gemarterte Hörerhirn die ganze Zeit den verschobenen Sinn wieder gerade rücken, um am Ball zu bleiben. Mühsam, nicht vergnüglich.<p>  Da hier obendrein ein Schauspieler am Werk ist, dessen süddeutsch geprägtes Organ unserem Ohr sehr gekonnt zu suggerieren versteht, hier spräche die Weisheit selbst, findet man sich immer wieder eingelullt und schreckt dann nach einer Handvoll Sinnwidrigkeiten hoch: Wie denn, was nun, wer ist tot?<p>  Fazit: Ziemlich anstrengend, das Vergnügen am Thema bleibt etwas auf der Strecke. <em>--Michael Winteroll</em><p>  Lesung, 2 CDs, Gesamtdauer 114 Minuten, Booklet 14 Seiten mit biografischen Angaben</p></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[The connection between communication and reality is a relatively new idea. It is only in recent decades that the confusions, disorientations and very different world views that arise as a result of communication have become an independent field of research. One of the experts who has been working in this field is Dr. Paul Watzlawick, and he here presents, in a series of arresting and sometimes very funny examples, some of the findings.]]>
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    <![CDATA[This book deals with the age-old questions of persistence and change in human affairs. More particularly, it is concerned with how problems arise and are perpetuated in some instances, and resolved in others. It examines how, paradoxically, common sense and logical approaches often fail and in doing so compound an existing problem, while seemingly 'illogical' and 'unreasonable' actions succeed in producing the desired change. <br/>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Three prominent American therapists detail their  theories and strategies for promoting human  change and dealing with related psychological  problems.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Wie wirklich ist die Wirklichkeit? Wahn, Täuschung, Verstehen.]]>
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    <![CDATA[ Sie sind gerade in New York angekommen und setzen Ihren Fuß erstmals auf amerikanischen Boden. Nach dem anstrengenden Flug würden Sie jetzt am liebsten ein Nickerchen machen. Da sehen Sie im Flughafen Türen mit der verheißungsvollen Aufschrift &quot;Ruheräume&quot; (Rest rooms). Sie freuen sich, daß diese Amerikaner aber wirklich an alles denken. Die Enttäuschung beim Öffnen  der Türen ist vermeidbar. Lesen Sie zuerst die <em>Gebrauchsanweisung für  Amerika</em>! Dann sind Sie gegen die Tücken des American way of Life bestens gewappnet. Der aus Kärnten stammende Paul Watzlawick lebt heute in Kalifornien und ist ein erfahrener Pendler zwischen der Alten und der Neuen Welt. In seiner bekannten humorvoll-ironischen Art beschreibt er, worauf sich heutige Amerika-Entdecker gefaßt machen müssen. Da wir in Deutschland durch Film, Fernsehen und Werbung ständig von US-Klischees umgeben sind, unterschätzen wir leicht die tatsächlichen Unterschiede, die uns im amerikanischen Alltag begegnen. So ist mit &quot;second floor&quot; nicht der zweite, sondern der erste Stock gemeint, und Entfernungen werden noch heute in mittelalterlichen Meilen angegeben. Ein guter Tip der <em>Gebrauchsanweisung</em> ist z.B. der Hinweis, daß 61 Grad Fahrenheit zufällig 16 Grad Celsius sind eine einprägsame Orientierungshilfe. Es gelten aber nicht nur andere Maßeinheiten, sondern auch andere Wertmaßstäbe, die uns Europäer mitunter verwirren. Als erfahrener Psychologe (Bestseller <em>Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein</em>) ergänzt Watzlawick seine  präzisen Beobachtungen durch wertvolle Hintergundinformationen zu den Motiven  des uns fremden Verhaltens. Und im letzten Kapitel &quot;Homo americanus&quot; geht er sogar der schwierigen Frage nach, was es mit dem Glücklichsein, bzw. dem Streben danach, eigentlich auf sich hat. <em>--Stephan Schmidt</em>]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communication and communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the way therapists use language. 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.<br/><br/>Dr. Watzlawick suggests that rather than following the usual procedure of interpreting the patient's communications and thereby translating them into the language of a given psychotherapeutic theory, the therapist must learn the patient's language and make his or her interventions in terms that are congenial to the patient's manner of conceptualizing reality. Only in that way, he shows, can the therapist effectively bring about genuine changes and problem resolutions. Drawing on the work of Milton H. Erickson, he supports his findings with many (and often amusing) examples.<br/><br/>This book, then, is a virtual introductory course to the grammar and language of the unconscious.<br/>]]>
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