My Introduction to Psychology 13: Change
We can’t really change people…in the foundational way…Yes, people do change when then want to…they become something they want to be…yet people “rebound” to their old self. (Just like after losing weight.)
So, what are we helpers doing here? Some say that we are waiting for people to change, the other say that we are really able to change people. Let’s say that we are able to do so. In that case, are the people (the product of our intervention) genuine? Aren’t they creepy, therapied, politically correct, sanitized, MacDonald’s hanger-version-of-processed-human-soul?
Let’s say that we therapists struggle between the two sticky edges of the swords—changing a person for treatment and keeping the something terrible yet fantastic characteristics of him/her…
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