This paper is a preliminary excursion in an effort to formulate a general theory of conduct reorganization. Briefly put, our thesis is that significant conduct reorganization occurs when certain antecedent conditions are met, the particular species of intervention—e.g., psychotherapy, Synanon, religious conversion, etc.—being relatively incidental so long as the same basic processes occur. Conduct reorganization is achieved when the patient, client, initiate, or convert becomes actively involved in all the social and psychological stages of an identifiable sequence of events. In keeping with the prefatory nature of this paper, we describe in a general way the components of the change process and their functional equivalents.