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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 404,414 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Paul Watzlawick is the 80th most popular psychologist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from Austria (down from 231st 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 80 out of 183Before him are Otto Rank, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Karl Abraham, Alice Miller, Harry Harlow, and William Stern. After him are David McClelland, Walter Bradford Cannon, Muzafer Sherif, Ludwig Binswanger, Karl Bühler, and Vladimir Bekhterev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Paul Watzlawick ranks 70Before him are Yoichiro Nambu, Peter Benenson, Franco Corelli, Mary Jackson, Louis Jourdan, and Yitzhak Navon. After him are Giuseppe Di Stefano, Jack Steinberger, Iris Apfel, Farida of Egypt, Countess Georgina von Wilczek, and Yuri Nikulin. Among people deceased in 2007, Paul Watzlawick ranks 38Before him are Lois Maxwell, Marcheline Bertrand, Henri Troyat, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Vladimir Kryuchkov, and Arthur Kornberg. After him are Jane Wyman, Robert Jordan, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gaston Thorn, and Joe Zawinul.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Paul Watzlawick ranks 267 out of 1,237Before him are Max Steiner (1888), Max Perutz (1914), Thomas Klestil (1932), Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (1534), Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705), and Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711). After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria (1878), Cecilia Renata of Austria (1611), Felix Baumgartner (1969), Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924), Udo Jürgens (1934), and Kunigunde of Austria (1465).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Paul Watzlawick ranks 7Before him are Alfred Adler (1870), Viktor Frankl (1905), Melanie Klein (1882), Anna Freud (1895), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), and Otto Rank (1884). After him are René Spitz (1887), Otto Gross (1877), Heinz Kohut (1913), Walter Mischel (1930), Fritz Heider (1896), and Emma Eckstein (1865).