Changing an individual's worldview:

Randolph M. Nesse:

"But trying to shift an individual's worldview is like trying to replace the girders in a high-rise building. No amount of logic or argument helps much. What works is experiencing a kind of relationship that is different from all previous ones. Sometimes this happens with love, sometimes in relationships at school or work. It can happen in good intensive psychotherapy, especially when patients begin to recognize how they create the situations that torment them. People can change in fundamental ways. Helping them to do that is difficult but satisfying work."