For something that we have been experiencing all our lives, most of us handle change very badly. We switch careers and marriages more often than ever before, we move from one city to another, meet different people every day - yet each change brings with it new fears and further confusion. How can we handle these difficult, painful experiences? And what new insights can we learn about ourselves from these transitions? Transitions helps both in identifying, and in coping with, such critical changes in our lives. It takes us step by step through the transition process, offering skills, suggestions and advice for negotiating each of the three perilous passages: The Ending, The Neutral Zone and The New Beginning. *Transitions* is the first book of its kind to explore this underlying pattern of transition, whatever the specific change.