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You are here: Home / Uncategorized / Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives.

Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives.

November 17, 2016

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.

 

William R. Miller, and Janet C’de Baca. (2001). Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives. Guilford Press. Abstract available (fee for complete article):

 

 

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