Hi everyone, this is Dr. Niagara again, with our second edition of Psychology Unplugged.

I want to focus on today is the concept of change.

Boy, some of us love it, some of us hate it.

We mind changing our clothes.

You don't mind changing what direction we're going in.

I don't mind changing when we eat for dinner. But when you get into this concept of psychological change, and I remember being asked this question in my doctoral program,

why do people change?

The most logical answer would be, well, because they want to. Wrong. Because someone is telling them to.

Wrong. Because a spouse is, a probation officer is, a judge is, all wrong.

From a psychological and psychiatric perspective, people only change when they're uncomfortable.

So think about adjusting yourself in the chair.

You go from a state of perceived discomfort to a state of perceived comfort.

Until somebody gets to that point of saying, I'm tired of thinking, feeling, and acting this way,

therapeutic change cannot occur.

Now, change in another perspective, if it kind of go back into the history of psychology,

it was a major shift, a paradigm shift, really, between the Freudian notion of the human psyche

and the opposing position of Freud student, Adler.

Now, most of you guys are aware, you know, Freud is a lot of respect for him because he was

the first person to come up with a psychological theory to explain human behavior.

You can go back into Hippocrates, Socrates, way back into history.

But they used to meet at these Wednesday night circles in Vienna.

And Freud obviously was the guru at the time.

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