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The Center of Continuing Education Book Series
Meet the Authors
How People Change
with William Tucker, M.D.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Location: Erdman Center, Cooper Conference Room
The Book: How People Change: The Short Story as Case History
The Author: William Tucker, M.D.
How People Change: The Short Story as Case History describes a simple and consistent method for reading short stories closely, so that they illustrate how change occurs in real life, across the life cycle. The book also contains sixteen well-known short stories in their entirety and a discussion of each, showing how the method might be applied. A final section suggests how the insights from these stories might apply to actual clinical situations of people needing to change but resisting doing so.
William Tucker, M.D. is clinical professor of psychiatry at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has published in the professional literature on psychiatric education, trauma, and telemedicine, and has been teaching psychiatric residents and fellow physicians about the process of change for the past two decades.
Audience: Professional community and the general public; those interested in the short story as an insight into human behavior and motivation; personal enrichment.
Books will be available for purchase the day of the event, and a book signing will follow. Space is limited—Please register early to ensure your space. Most Book Series events have closed with a waiting list.
Registration Fee:
This event is free and open to the public.
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“Charming and memorable, not
to mention enormously
useful to…therapists
and patients.”
—Ethel Person, M.D., Columbia University,
author of Dreams of
Love and Fateful
Encounters: The Power
of Romantic Passion
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