PSYCHOLOGIST

Paul Watzlawick

1921 - 2007

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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. Watzlawick believed that people create their own suffering in the very act of trying to fix their emotional problems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Watzlawick has received more than 437,556 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Paul Watzlawick is the 79th most popular psychologist (up from 80th in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from Austria (down from 267th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

Paul Watzlawick is most famous for his work on the "principle of double-bind" and "paradoxical intention." He was a psychotherapist, philosopher, and writer.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Paul Watzlawick ranks 79 out of 235Before him are George Armitage Miller, Karl Bühler, Edward C. Tolman, William Stern, Ludwig Binswanger, and Timothy Leary. After him are Edward B. Titchener, Jean Tatlock, G. Stanley Hall, David Wechsler, Walter Bradford Cannon, and Donald O. Hebb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Paul Watzlawick ranks 67Before him are Viktor Kulikov, Zizinho, György Cziffra, Mario Lanza, Miklós Jancsó, and Farida of Egypt. After him are Gérard Debreu, Karel Appel, Amin al-Hafiz, Françoise Gilot, Thomas Schelling, and Jack Steinberger. Among people deceased in 2007, Paul Watzlawick ranks 43Before him are Henri Troyat, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Lois Maxwell, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Jean-Claude Brialy. After him are Norman Mailer, Gaston Thorn, John Backus, E. Howard Hunt, Taha Yassin Ramadan, and Paul Lauterbur.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Paul Watzlawick ranks 280 out of 1,424Before him are Max Steiner (1888), Ferdinand Čatloš (1895), Walter Kohn (1923), Claudia Felicitas of Austria (1653), Hans Hollein (1934), and Gaston Glock (1929). After him are Maria Leopoldine of Austria (1632), Oskar Werner (1922), Guido von List (1848), Baron Alexander von Bach (1813), Alexander Wienerberger (1891), and Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Paul Watzlawick ranks 7Before him are Alfred Adler (1870), Viktor Frankl (1905), Anna Freud (1895), Melanie Klein (1882), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), and Otto Rank (1884). After him are Otto Gross (1877), René Spitz (1887), Heinz Kohut (1913), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), Walter Mischel (1930), and Fritz Heider (1896).