It's weird I never saw this thread before.
Freelancer, you know of neuro-plasticity, too?! Haha awesome. I just read a book on it called "The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science".
It's about real studies, real people, and real situations that the author experienced while researching about neuro-plasticity, the brain's ability to change itself and it's relationship with the world. Watching discovery channel documentaries on the brain does not give you the half of it!
To give an eye-catching example that illustrates not the exception to the rule, but the rule, is a man who, in the 1960s, created a device with 140 closely-placed pegs hooked up to a camera. The pegs are like a low resolution computer screen, transmuting the sense of touch to accomodate vision. The pegs touch the body in dark spots and are off the body in light spots. People could actually perceive 3 dimensions with this device, which has been much improved today and is now placed on the tongue. Think of that! Senses changing!
With this in mind, personality change is a snap. The author,
Norman Doidge, also worked with others in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to heal their personalities. One man profoundly changed his personality in his 50s after childhood trauma and many bad things happening to him.
I, too, shared little interest in these studies, until I actually read them. For our purposes, this is more than enough evidence that personality can be changed.
Don't believe the naysayers. There's too much evidence backing up the truth.
The website:
Norman Doidge, M.D. | The Brain That Changes Itself
Read it!