Topic: | Re:Origins - Watzlawick |
Posted by: | John Grinder |
Date/Time: | 04/06/2002 18:17:52 |
Ian Glad you enjoyed Whispering! Paul Watzlawick's (actually, Watzlawick, Beavin and Jackson's) Pragmatics of Human Communication is a "popularization" of Bateson's work (primarily the work presented in Steps to an Ecology of Mind (note the dedication). We found nothing in Pragmatics that wasn't represented in a deeper more thought-provoking form in Bateson directly. I intend this to be a description not a critique as according to Bateson, Watzlawick and his co-authors set out to ensure that the world recognized Bateson's contribution by putting it in a more accessible form. We preferred the original. Watzlawick's work on reframing is, to me at least, more interesting than his popularization of Bateson. In any case, Pragmatics exercised no influence on either Bandler or I in creating NLP; Bateson most assuredly did. John |
Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
Origins - Watzlawick | 04/06/2002 14:10:47 | Ian Newton |
Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 04/06/2002 18:17:52 | John Grinder |
Re:Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 04/06/2002 23:29:46 | Ian Newton |
Re:Re:Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 05/06/2002 03:51:20 | John Grinder |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 06/06/2002 12:15:10 | Ian Newton |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 07/06/2002 01:39:14 | nj |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 07/06/2002 08:34:11 | Ian Newton |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 07/06/2002 14:26:11 | nj |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 07/06/2002 20:41:21 | Ian Newton |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 08/06/2002 03:35:01 | nj |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Origins - Watzlawick | 08/06/2002 03:59:46 | Michael Carroll |