31.03.2007 verstorben in Palo Alto nach schwerer langer Krankheit
<!-- Wird noch übersetzt: Am MRI ist Watzlawick in die Fussstapfen von Gregory Bateson getreten. At the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California Watzlawick followed in the footsteps of Gregory Bateson and the research team In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Team (Don D. Jackson, John Weakland, Jay Haley) responsible for introducing what became known as the "double bind" theory of schizophreniawar er maßgeblich an der Entwicklung der Doppelbindungstheorie beteiligt. Watzlawick's 1967 work based on Bateson's thinkingDie Doppelbindungstheorie beschreibt die doppelte Bindung von Menschen an paradoxe oder gegensprüchliche Aussagen, Pragmatics of Human Communication (with Don Jackson and Janet Beavin), became a cornerstone work of communication theory. Other scientific contributions include works on radical constructivism and most importantly his theory on communication. He was active in the field of family therapydie zu schizophrenem Verhalten führen können.
Watzlawick was one of the three founding members of the Brief Therapy Center at MRI. In 1974, members of the Center published a major work on their brief approach, Change, Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution (Watzlawick, Weakland, Fisch).-->
== Kommunikationstheorie ==
