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A high level of compensation produces subsequent psychological difficulties. This fictional world, sustained by the need to safeguard an anxious ego, by private logic at variance with reason or common sense, by a schema of apperception which interprets and filters and suppresses the real- world data, is a fragile bubble. How Real Is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication: An Anecdotal Introduction to Communications Theory by Watzlawick, Paul and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. The Invented Reality How Do We Know What We Believe We Know Contributions to Constructivism - Download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online. How Real Is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication, Paul Watzlawick, 1976, Social Science, 266 pages.. Giordano Bruno philosopher of the.
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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 ar...more
Published January 12th 1977 by Vintage (first published 1976)
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Jul 22, 2013Emma Sea rated it liked it
Not what I expected. This book's a bit of a classic in communication theory, because it was the first academic book that suggested there was a seperate reality for everyone involved in a relationship: no one is 'wrong', everyone's truth is valid. Through citations I read over the years I got the impression that this was chock full of anecdotes about miscommunications in relationships, but in fact there's only three. *puzzled face*
It is, rather, a book about slippages (or potential slippages) in...more
It is, rather, a book about slippages (or potential slippages) in...more
Sep 25, 2009Alexander Tomislav rated it it was amazing
I have re-read this book after some 12 years and it's as relevant as ever.
Main ideas presented in the book deal with how communication creates reality. Author makes a distinction between first-order reality (the actual physical space) and second-order reality (the explanations and conceptualizations that living beings create to make sense of the world).
Through examinations of problems in translation, paradoxes and possibilities of non-human communication (with apes, dolphins and extraterrestrial...more
Main ideas presented in the book deal with how communication creates reality. Author makes a distinction between first-order reality (the actual physical space) and second-order reality (the explanations and conceptualizations that living beings create to make sense of the world).
Through examinations of problems in translation, paradoxes and possibilities of non-human communication (with apes, dolphins and extraterrestrial...more
Jul 20, 2018Gerardo rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Testo scritto davvero benissimo e molto avvincente, nonostante la complessità del tema. Grazie ai numerosi aneddoti, W. riesce a spiegare tutte quelle strutture mentali che condizionano la nostra percezione del reale.
Il testo parte dall'assunto che una delle credenze più pericolose sia quella di sostenere che ci sia una sola realtà. Di fatto, W. ci parla di due livelli di realtà: il primo è verificabile attraverso l'analisi di dati e dipende dalla nostra conoscenza tecnica. Il secondo livello,...more
Feb 17, 2018Saskia rated it it was amazingIl testo parte dall'assunto che una delle credenze più pericolose sia quella di sostenere che ci sia una sola realtà. Di fatto, W. ci parla di due livelli di realtà: il primo è verificabile attraverso l'analisi di dati e dipende dalla nostra conoscenza tecnica. Il secondo livello,...more
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This was a wonderful journey through many interconnected experiments, stories, dilemmas, paradoxes, thought experiences or anecdotes.
The sum of these don't only offer information about language or communication, but about different belief systems (religion, superstition,...), sociology, intersubjectivity, (radical) constructivism, the animal kingdom, aliens, time and space, time travel and, of course: the concept of reality.
This book kindles fascination in 'the world out there', as well as a he...more
The sum of these don't only offer information about language or communication, but about different belief systems (religion, superstition,...), sociology, intersubjectivity, (radical) constructivism, the animal kingdom, aliens, time and space, time travel and, of course: the concept of reality.
This book kindles fascination in 'the world out there', as well as a he...more
Nov 02, 2017Claudio Valverde rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Si bien se nota que fue escrito en 1979 me gustó mucho. Es un pantallazo general sobre la información y la desinformación, las barreras lingüísticas, los malos entendidos, la manipulación de la información y la consecuente maleabilidad de la concepción de la realidad para todas las personas, incluso toca la temática de la comunicación entre animales y seres humanos. En estos tiempos en que se cuestiona o interroga a los medios de comunicación masiva acerca de su poder para desvirtuar la realidad...more
May 29, 2019Marco rated it liked it · review of another edition
Un libro scritto negli anni Settanta che ci parla in maniera straordinariamente lucida del nostro presente, un presente che vive più che mai di comunicazione, di disinformazione e, conseguentemente, nella confusione. Con il suo stile preciso ma mai ostico, scientifico ma piacevolissimo, Watzlawick ci parla di paradossi, di fake news - prima che si chiamassero così - di cavalli 'parlanti', di spie e addirittura di comunicazioni con gli alieni.
Un libro da leggere per capire meglio le strategie ch...more
Un libro da leggere per capire meglio le strategie ch...more
Jan 25, 2018Noelia Ciudad rated it it was ok · review of another edition
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Oct 15, 2018Miriam rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Filosofía, matemáticas, física, comunicación... este libro lo tiene todo y además de forma amena.
Sep 03, 2018Noebonaerense90 rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Dec 12, 2008Reinhold rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Radikaler Konstruktivismus
Der Radikale Konstruktivismus ist jene Philosophie zu der sich der Autor ganz klar bekennt und zu deren Bestand er wesentlich beigetragen hat. Watzlawick kommt ursprünglich aus der Psychologie und Sprachforschung und insofern liegen seine Betrachtungsobjekte auch genau in jenem Bereich.
Was ist nun dieser Radikale Konstruktivismus? Nun, das ist gar nicht so schwer zu verstehen, der Kern ist, dass die Wirklichkeit die wir sehen immer dadurch beeinflusst wird, was wir über...more
Der Radikale Konstruktivismus ist jene Philosophie zu der sich der Autor ganz klar bekennt und zu deren Bestand er wesentlich beigetragen hat. Watzlawick kommt ursprünglich aus der Psychologie und Sprachforschung und insofern liegen seine Betrachtungsobjekte auch genau in jenem Bereich.
Was ist nun dieser Radikale Konstruktivismus? Nun, das ist gar nicht so schwer zu verstehen, der Kern ist, dass die Wirklichkeit die wir sehen immer dadurch beeinflusst wird, was wir über...more
I usually know where I stand with a book. I glance at a page of mathematical computation and my eyes glaze over, my brain shuts down. I read The Little Prince, and suddenly the world just seems a more wonderful place to be. With How Real Is Real, I'm pretty sure that I got the general gist. I think. But there were long stretches of seeming endless rambling which, to a more astute reader perhaps, were probably steeped in many, many levels of rich nuance and insight. Oh well. I liked chapter 2, an...more
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Nov 08, 2014David Plácido rated it liked it · review of another edition
'Pensar que nunca mais vou pensar em ti
continua a ser pensar em ti.
Deixa-me então tentar não pensar que nunca
mais vou pensar em ti.
As minhas convicções não são para ostentar em público.
Não há fumo sem fogo (mas um monte de estrume também fumega.)
Si jeunesse savait, si viellesse pouvait! (Se os jovens soubessem, se os velhos pudessem!).
(...)pressuposições, crenças, premissas, superstições, esperanças e afins se podem tornar mais reais do que a realidade, criando uma teia de ilusões.
Sobre aquilo...more
continua a ser pensar em ti.
Deixa-me então tentar não pensar que nunca
mais vou pensar em ti.
As minhas convicções não são para ostentar em público.
Não há fumo sem fogo (mas um monte de estrume também fumega.)
Si jeunesse savait, si viellesse pouvait! (Se os jovens soubessem, se os velhos pudessem!).
(...)pressuposições, crenças, premissas, superstições, esperanças e afins se podem tornar mais reais do que a realidade, criando uma teia de ilusões.
Sobre aquilo...more
This book aptly concludes with a quote from Wittgenstein: 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.'
I learned much from this book, but cannot say what, although I felt I 'got it' as I read it. Topics of especial interest: the double bind in relationships,the nature of confusion and neurosis, the coexistence of many realities simultaneously, and my personal favorite of the role of the dissenter in the family as scapegoated crazy person if the family myth is challenged (Chapter Nine:...more
I learned much from this book, but cannot say what, although I felt I 'got it' as I read it. Topics of especial interest: the double bind in relationships,the nature of confusion and neurosis, the coexistence of many realities simultaneously, and my personal favorite of the role of the dissenter in the family as scapegoated crazy person if the family myth is challenged (Chapter Nine:...more
May 22, 2016Daniel Studzinski rated it it was amazing
a gold mine of basic and cultural independent information about communication... it was my last book of the three I purchased from the same author and I recommend it to everyone...
'I would like to think that this book might contribute, if only in a small way, to creating an awareness of those forms of psychological violence which might make it more difficult for the modern mind-rapists, brainwashers and self-appointed world saviors to exert their evil power.' from the foreword from the author. I...more
'I would like to think that this book might contribute, if only in a small way, to creating an awareness of those forms of psychological violence which might make it more difficult for the modern mind-rapists, brainwashers and self-appointed world saviors to exert their evil power.' from the foreword from the author. I...more
Jul 24, 2015Robert rated it liked it · review of another edition
The Book Starts with mindblowing insights about Communication and Interdependence. I like the first part of the book a lot. With lots of studies and jokes the author shows how our reality is made with the means of Communication.
In the Last Chapter of the Book the author gets lost in the idea of extraterrestrial communication.
The author tries to get to his point on the last pages. But he is not able to come back to the strength of the first chapters.
All in all a good piece of entrance to the wor...more
In the Last Chapter of the Book the author gets lost in the idea of extraterrestrial communication.
The author tries to get to his point on the last pages. But he is not able to come back to the strength of the first chapters.
All in all a good piece of entrance to the wor...more
Oct 20, 2012Redmer Huizinga rated it it was amazing
How Real is Real is about communication and reality. Reading experience falls between Eagleman's Incognito and Freakonomics but....this book is 35 years old. Watzlawick waltzes with ease and elegance through semantic traps, pitfalls in logic and all the other contraptions by which 'people can drive each other crazy' or, as he so correctly observes, by which they 'communicate'.
Apr 16, 2016Dario Deserri rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Diese Buch handelt davon, daß die sogenannte 'Wirklichkeit das Ergebnis von Kommunikation ist“.
Wenn es keine Kommunikation gibt, dann das Leben ist vorbei, ist nicht mehr vorhanden, das Leben lebt nicht mehr. „Die Kommunikation ist nicht nur die Art und Weise, sondern auch die Wirklichkeit zu beschreiben und mitzuteilen“.
Wenn es keine Kommunikation gibt, dann das Leben ist vorbei, ist nicht mehr vorhanden, das Leben lebt nicht mehr. „Die Kommunikation ist nicht nur die Art und Weise, sondern auch die Wirklichkeit zu beschreiben und mitzuteilen“.
A wonderful introductory text with great real world examples that will set you mind on fire. I especially liked the section on intellegence gathering, counter-intellegence and counter-counter intellegence.
Love this book a mind opener
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I was quite scared when I first read this book...felt kind of schizophrenic I must say...But sometimes is good to question our notions of reality!
Sep 05, 2008Icaras rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Very interesting book about how we create our realities through communication. Good to read peace by peace, because it includes many little anecdotes.
Feb 04, 2017Dennis rated it liked it · review of another edition
3,5 Sterne
Apr 27, 2015Simone Sistici rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Un capolavoro. Da non perdere!
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Was an Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher. A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he has commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. He was one of the most influential figures at the Mental Research Institute and lived and worked in Palo Alto, California, until his death at the age of 85
“Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality.” — 7 likes
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