Introduction / Thomas M. Brinthaupt and Richard P. Lipka -- Part I. Philosophies of Changing the Self -- Changes in the Self from a Developmental/Psychosocial Perspective / Don Hamachek -- Cluttered Terrain : The Schools' Interest in the Self / James A. Beane -- Changing the Delinquent Self / Martin Gold -- Changing the Religious Self and the Problem of Rationality / P.J. Watson -- Part 2. Techniques of Changing the Self -- Shrinking the Self / Roy F. Baumeister and Joseph M. Boden -- Conceptualizing and Changing the Self from a Rational Therapy Perspective / Charles Zastrow -- The Transtheoretical Model of Change / Diane Grimley [and others] -- Pathways to Internalization : When Does Overt Behavior Change the Self-Concept? / Dianne M. Tice -- Part 3. Experiences of Changing the Self -- Self-Change Experiences of Psychotherapists / John C. Norcross and Darren C. Aboyoun -- Self and Self-Loss in Mystical Experience / Ralph W. Hood, Jr. -- Minority Identity And Self-Concept : The American Indian Experience / John M. Dodd, J. Ron Nelson, and Bonnie Henderson Hofland -- Disability and the Self / S. Kay Toombs.