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The situation is hopeless, but not serious : the pursuit of unhappiness

Calling upon metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendos, and certain other "right-hemispheric" language games, Paul Watzlawick shows how we can (and do) make everyday life miserable.
Print Book, English, 1993
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 1993
Humor
125 páginas ; 21 centímetros
9780393310214, 0393310213
1105278555
This above all: to thine own self be true. -Four games with the past. -Russians and Americans
The story of the Hammer. -A handful of beans. -Chasing away the elephants. -Self-fulfilling prophecies. -Beware of arriving. -If you really loved me, you would like garlic. -"Be spontaneous!". -Why Would anybody love me?. -The traps of helping. -Those crazy foreigners. -Life as a game