ABSTRACT

How to capitalize on change -- as a key feature of modern living - - is the central theme of this work. Incorporating the major theoretical advances psychology has made during the last thirty years, People and Change describes how clinical levels of psychological difficulty can develop and how problems such as phobias, depression, shyness, marital and sexual disharmony, obsessions, and over-indulgence are treated.

Although a psychology text, People and Change offers an unusually broad scope. The text acknowledges the interplay of somatic vulnerabilities, environmental influences, large individual differences, and various other factors that can be involved in the complex stress process that leads to bad habits. The ability of the individual to adapt to change through self-knowledge is stressed throughout this important book.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I|52 pages

How Problems Develop

chapter 1|13 pages

Learning

chapter 2|25 pages

Sources of Stress

chapter 3|10 pages

The Stress Response

part Π|89 pages

Specific Problem Areas

chapter 4|13 pages

Anxiety, Fears, and Phobias

chapter 5|10 pages

Depression

chapter 6|9 pages

Obsessive-Compulsive Problems

chapter 7|9 pages

Relating

chapter 8|8 pages

Marriage

chapter 9|10 pages

Sex

chapter 10|12 pages

Overindulgence

chapter 11|13 pages

Attrition, Adherence, and Relapse