Abstract
New situations require new behaviors. New roles require change in ways of relating to others. Sometimes the change is made easily, sometimes it seems impossible to change. Sometimes people manage to change on their own or with the help of friends. Sometimes people need psychotherapy before they are able to change. How people make behavioral and attitudinal changes in or out of psychotherapy is the subject of this chapter. We will approach this goal by melding insights from the interpersonal view of psychoanalysis with the theoretical constructs of social psychology.
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Cooper, A., Cooper, J. (1991). How People Change with and without Therapy. In: Curtis, R.C., Stricker, G. (eds) How People Change. The Springer Series in Social / Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0741-7_13
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