CONTRAST, CONTRADICTION, AND CHANGE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

The experience of contrast not only plays a fundamental role in moment -to-moment construction of reality, but also may function as a common source of change across diverse forms of psychotherapy. This article ( a) examines salient sources of contrast associated with psychodynamic, interpersonal, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and experiential psy chotherapies and (b) proposes a developmental framework for understand ing the role of contrast in the process of change.