[Paradoxical intervention technics in psychotherapy--can the brief therapy model of the Palo-Alto--group serve as a contribution to the broadening of psychotherapeutic treatment methods, especially in behavior therapy].

This article examines the question, if - in spite of the theoretical inadequacies and insufficient reproducibility of the therapy-model and its treatment methods that Watzlawick et al. described in Lösungen - an analysis of concrete treatment examples could yield suitable therapeutic techniques to broaden the interventional spectrum of psychotherapy, especially of behavioral oriented forms. The result of the analysis is negative.