Paul Watzlawick is one of the world's leading theoreticians in Communication Theory and Radical Constructivism.

Author of 18 books (in 85 foreign language editions) and more than 150 book articles and book chapters, Dr. Watzlawick is a founding member of MRI's Brief Therapy Center, and also offers workshops on the Therapy of "As-If."

Dr. Watzlawick lectures around the world and participates in the weekly Brief Therapy Center meetings at the MRI.

Some of the most famous Watzlawick's books include Pragmatics of Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes , (co-authored with Janet Beavin and Don D. Jackson); Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution , (co-authored with John Weakland and Richard Fisch); The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication ; The Situation is Hopeless but Not Serious ; and Ultra Solutions: How to Fail Most Successfully.