He can’t stop pigging out. She can’t stop worrying. He can’t stop his substance abuse.
Even good psychotherapists (and advertisers) have a hard time getting
people to change. It’s been said that it takes six to nine exposures to
an ad to get someone to change their brand of toilet paper!
So, there are no magic pills yet. Best we can do, in our own lives
and in trying to shepherd others to change, is to have a toolkit of
interventions to draw from. My PsychologyToday.com article today describes four widely used ones.
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