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Conflict Transformation

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Carl Rogers recognized a similar dynamic in conflicts between people, conflicts between human groups, and conflicts within an individual person. These conflicts have in common that an entity, a heretofore trusted being, has its unity threatened or ruptured. Conflict transformation is an effort to facilitate evolution and change in relationships between “parts” of a jeopardized entity: to reconcile, repair, renew, or disperse a “whole” with just and satisfying replacements. Through comments on illustrative examples, this chapter conveys the author’s thoughts about conflicts, their transformations, and their connections to ideas and practices in Carl Rogers’ work.

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  1. Center for Studies of the Person, 1150 Silverado St., Suite 217, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Will Stillwell

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  1. University of Missouri, S. National Avenue 901, Springfield, 65897, Missouri, USA

    Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White

  2. University of Vienna, Währinger Strasse 29/6.41, Vienna, 1090, Austria

    Renate Motschnig-Pitrik

  3. Quellenhof, Neurologisches Rehabilitationszentrum, Kuranlagenallee 2, Bad Wildbad, 75323, Germany

    Michael Lux

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Stillwell, W. (2013). Conflict Transformation. In: Cornelius-White, J., Motschnig-Pitrik, R., Lux, M. (eds) Interdisciplinary Applications of the Person-Centered Approach. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7144-8_19

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