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How People Change

Inside and Outside Therapy

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Rebecca C. Curtis

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

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  2. George Stricker

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

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Part of the book series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology (SSSC)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  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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About this book

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).

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Rebecca C. Curtis, George Stricker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: How People Change

  • Book Subtitle: Inside and Outside Therapy

  • Editors: Rebecca C. Curtis, George Stricker

  • Series Title: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0741-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43784-7Published: 30 April 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0743-1Published: 30 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0741-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2528

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 218

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology

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