Therapies Emphasizing Biological Processes, 5. Harold H. Bloomfield, William Glasser, Thomas A. Harris, Joseph Hart, Werner Karle, Bernard Rimland, Alexander Runciman, Lowell H. Storms, Lee Woldenberg, Gary M. Yontef. These are the changes that I believe are the primary sources of behavior change when it occurs. Obviously one's value system undergoes great transformations . Many of the cultural and provincial taboos and personal aspirations recede.
Values assume a more eternal and cosmic quality.
Indeed, at the height of the reaction, strong feelings of omnipotence and omniscience can develop, and these require therapeutic assistance. This temporary altered perspective may be helpful for those who are overwhelmed by the magnitude of their ordinary problems. If the old superego constraints were much too rigid and too demanding, they might remain relaxed after a transient exposure to the new frame of reference with its more cosmic values. It can be inferred from what has been said that drastic changes in one's attitude toward one's personal death would occur. The life-death dichotomy disappears.