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By: William Miller , Janet C'deBacaImprint: Guilford Press
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Most of us walk through each day expecting few surprises. If we want to better ourselves or our lives, we map out a path of gradual change, perhaps in counseling or psychotherapy. Psychologists William Miller and Janet C'de Baca were longtime scholars and teachers of traditional approaches to self-improvement when they became intrigued by a different sort of change that was sometimes experienced by people they encountered something often described as "a bolt from the blue" or "seeing the light." And when they placed a request in a local newspaper for people's stories of unexpected personal transformation, the deluge of responses was astounding. These compelling stories of epiphanies and sudden insights inspired Miller and C'de Baca to examine the experience of "quantum change" through the lens of scientific psychology. Where does quantum change come from? Why do some of us experience it, and what kind of people do we become as a result? The answers that this book arrives at yield remarkable insights into how human beings achieve lasting change--sometimes even in spite of ourselves.
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| Title of eBook: Quantum Change | |
| Release Date: 10-21-2011 | |
| Publisher: Guilford Press |
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Quantum Change
Chapter One
THE LANDSCAPE OF QUANTUM CHANGE
The mathematics underlying three hundred years of science, though powerful and successful, have encouraged a one-sided view of change. These mathematical principles are ideally suited to analyze-because they were created to analyze-smooth, continuous, quantitative change: the smoothly curving paths of planets around the sun, the continuously varying pressure of a gas as it is heated and cooled, the quantitative increase of a hormone level in the bloodstream. But there is another kind of change, too, change that is less suited to mathematical analysis: the abrupt bursting of a bubble, the discontinuous transition from ice at its melting point to water at its freezing point, the qualitative shift in our minds when we "get" a pun or a play on words. -Alexander Woodcock and Monte Davis, Catastrophe Theory
TWO TYPES OF CHANGE
Change happens. It is one of the few constants of life. Like a canoe on a river, the question is not how to start to move but rather where your current course of movement is taking you.
Usually change is gradual, cumulative, like drifting slowly down-stream. Call it Type 1 change, or the "educational" variety, as William James termed it in his The Varieties of Religious Experience. You shift or drift a little bit at a time and, as with growing children, the changes may be most apparent to those who haven't seen you for a while.
Yet sometimes change also comes in big waves. Type 2 change is more like hitting the rapids. You are drift
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