Watzlawick

« The Art of Epochal Change » (2003)

by Michel Weber

« The Art of Epochal Change », in Franz Riffert and Michel Weber (eds.), Searching for New Contrasts. Whiteheadian Contributions to Contemporary Challenges in Neurophysiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Mind (Whitehead Psychology Nexus Studies I), Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 252-281.

This paper argues that there is a possible cross-elucidation and reinforcement between the worldviews of Whitehead and... more This paper argues that there is a possible cross-elucidation and reinforcement between the worldviews of Whitehead and Watzlawick: Whitehead providing to Watzlawick a theoretic basis that seems as seducing—if not broader—as the one Watzlawick himself attempted to give to his claims; and Watzlawick giving to Whitehead practical consequences of his theory of novelty and societies, thereby asking for their inflexion.