It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
Paul WatzlawickAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist
- Nationality: austrian
- Born: July 25, 1921
- Died: March 31, 2007
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