ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a successful redecision involves not only cognition and affect, but also intent: a clear and conscious choice to go a different route than before. Conrad's work provides a good example of the integration of all three processes in a single episode of redecision work. Regression work, in which the client is allowed to go back in fantasy to a time of script formation, forms a major part of integrative psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, if it is to effect lasting change, must affect script. It is script change that allows the client to experience him- or herself as truly different. Script may be changed through discovering new ways to think about self and others; through making changes in biochemistry, musculature, or movement patterns; or through reworking the feelings present when the script was formed and as it becomes reactivated in later life.
