Becoming an Agent: Patterns and Dynamics for Shaping Your Life - Softcover

Cochran, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791417204 ISBN 13: 9780791417201

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book is about individuals who have made dramatic changes in their lives. In the beginning, these people were living as patients or victims of circumstance. In the end, they were living as agents, free to shape the courses of their lives, to choose, set goals, plan-to make things happen, rather than to experience life as events happening to them.

The authors describe what is involved in such remarkable transformations. They identify a common structure of transformation involving four distinguishable phases. They also clarify a progressive dialectic between living the plot of a patient and living the plot of an agent, and show how an old plot is destroyed or deconstructed and a new plot is constructed.

About this title

About the Author

Larry Cochran is a Professor at University of British Columbia in the Department of Counseling Psychology.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791417204
• ISBN 13: 9780791417201
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206