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Short description: 1976 book by Paul Watzlawick
How Real Is Real?
AuthorPaul Watzlawick
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
PublisherPiper Verlag
Publication date
1976
Published in English
5 March 1976[1]
Pages252
ISBN3492021824

How Real Is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication (German: Wie wirklich ist die Wirklichkeit? Wahn, Täuschung, Verstehen) is a 1976 book by the Austrian-American writer Paul Watzlawick. It is about communication and its relationship with reality.[2][3]

Kirkus Reviews called the book entertaining and intriguing, writing that "Watzlawick is a superb popularizer who couches his scientific data in anecdotes, paradoxes, games, conundrums, jokes and stories".[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "How Real Is Real?: Confusion, Disinformation, Communication". Kirkus Reviews. 1 March 1976. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/paul-watzlawick/how-real-is-real-confusion-disinformation-commu/. 
  2. Heger, Michaela (2008). "Paul Watzlawick: Wie wirklich ist die Wirklichkeit?". in Pritz, Alfred (in de). Einhundert Meisterwerke der Psychotherapie. Vienna: Springer. pp. 197–198. doi:10.1007/978-3-211-69499-2_94. 
  3. Westwood, Marvin J. (1978). "Watzlawick, Paul. (1977). How Real is Real?". Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy 12 (3): 198–199. https://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/article/view/60187. Retrieved 19 June 2024.