Why It's So Difficult to Change Someone's Point of View

Stephen J. Betchen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Sex Therapist. He maintains a private practice in Cherry Hill, NJ and also supervises in the Couples and Family Therapy Graduate Program at Thomas Jefferson University where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor. Have you ever noticed that when you debate with someone, especially on politics or religion, you aren’t simply arguing with “one” person about “one” issue? Rather, you are arguing with an individual’s entire life history and all the people that have influenced that person along the way. Why is it so difficult to change a person’s point of view? Stephen Betchen explains.