How People Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. How People Change

   1. How People Change

      • Rebecca Curtis

      Pages 1-10

3. Perspectives from Clinical Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Questioning the Sacred Cow of the Transference

      • Esther Menaker

      Pages 13-20

   3. The Role of “Accomplices” in Preventing and Facilitating Change

      • Paul L. Wachtel

      Pages 21-28

   4. Transtheoretical Ingredients in Therapeutic Change

      • Marvin R. Goldfried

      Pages 29-37

   5. Emotion in the Change Process

      • Leslie S. Greenberg, René H. Rhodes

      Pages 39-58

   6. Davanloo’s Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

      • Leigh McCullough

      Pages 59-79

   7. Change in the Change Agents

      • Sheila M. Coonerty

      Pages 81-97

4. Perspectives from Social, Family, and Organizational Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. How to Change Behavior

      • Elliot Aronson

      Pages 101-112

   3. Changing Attitudes and Reducing Tensions between People

      • Otto Klineberg

      Pages 113-116

   4. The Two Faces of Change

      • Sam Kirschner, Diana Adile Kirschner

      Pages 117-127

   5. Individual Change in Organizational Settings

      • Barbara Benedict Bunker, Jacqueline J. DeLisle

      Pages 129-155

   6. Conflict, Negotiation, and Change

      • Jeffrey Z. Rubin, Carol M. Rubin

      Pages 157-169

5. Integration and Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. How People Change with and without Therapy

      • Allan Cooper, Joel Cooper

      Pages 173-189

   3. Toward an Integrative Theory of Psychological Change in Individuals and Organizations

      • Rebecca Curtis

      Pages 191-210

   4. How People Change

      • George Stricker

      Pages 211-214

6. Back Matter

   Pages 215-217

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In the myth of Daphne and Apollo, Cupid fired two arrows: one causing flight from love, the other passionate attraction. Cupid aimed his first arrow at Daphne, a beautiful nymph who loved her freedom; the next struck Apollo, who lusted after Daphne. Daphne, frightened and intent upon virginity, fled Apollo but was unable to run fast enough. When her strength was almost gone, she sought protection in the familiar waters of her father's river. He answered her prayers: Her hair became leaves, and her feet, roots growing into the ground; she was transformed into a laurel tree. Apollo, kissing the sprouting bark, pledged to honor Daphne by placing a laurel wreath on the head of every hero who won a victory. Unable to evade the consequences of the arrow that wounded her, Daphne called upon the river, the creative power of both nature and time-a symbol of fertility, but also of oblivion-to help her survive when her strength was gone. Daphne's inner triumph in the face of injury is an appropriate sym­ bol for the types of transformation witnessed by psychologists. In his book on symbols, Circlot (1962, p. 173) writes that the crowning of the poet, artist, or conqueror with laurel leaves "presupposes a series of inner victories over the negative and dissipative influence of the basest forces. " Further, the tree "denotes the life of the cosmos: its consistence, growth, proliferation, generative, and regenerative processes" (Circlot, 1962, p. 328).

• Therapeut
• clinical psychology
• conflict
• emotion
• psychology
• psychotherapy
• therapy

• Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA

  Rebecca C. Curtis, George Stricker

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