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Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom

by William Glasser

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ISBN13: 9780060930141
ISBN10: 0060930144
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In "Choice Theory," Dr. William Glasser offers readers a new and far more effective way to get along with the people in our lives. He explains convincingly that, barring severe poverty or untreatable illness, unsatisfying or disconnecting relationships are the source of almost all crime, addiction, and mental illness, as well as marital, family, and school failure. For progress in human relationships, he explains that we must give up the punishing, relationship-destroying external control psychology that is by far the dominant one in the world. in one of this century's most significant books on psychology, Dr. Glasser offers us choice theory, a noncontrolling psychology that gives us freedom to sustain the relationships that lead to healthy, productive lives.

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Dr. William Glasser offers a new psychology that, if practiced, could reverse our widespread inability to get along with one another, an inability that is the source of almost all unhappiness.

For progress in human relationships, he explains that we must give up the punishing, relationship–destroying external control psychology. For example, if you are in an unhappy relationship right now, he proposes that one or both of you could be using external control psychology on the other. He goes further. And suggests that misery is always related to a current unsatisfying relationship. Contrary to what you may believe, your troubles are always now, never in the past. No one can change what happened yesterday.

About the Author

William Glasser, M.D., is a world-renowned psychiatrist who lectures widely. An author of many books, including Choice Theory, Reality Therapy, The Quality School and Getting Together and Staying Together he is the president of the William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles.

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sumaya, January 11, 2007 (view all comments by sumaya)
willliam glasser is a great psychiatrist and founder of reality therapy. His book named choice theory is one of mind blowing books which focus on the failure of relationships from a different perspective. It is the hallmark of our cognitions that we tend to built current relationships on the basis of past mishappenings. This way we ruin our present relationships. The second most distressful thing is that we tend to control others' behaviors who are in relation to us, instead of our own. This book is a good effort to help us view the other side of picture which we conceal from others. Living in present, giving up punishing relationships, and focusing on our own behaviors can help us leading a prosperous, healthy life.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060930141
Subtitle:
A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
Author:
Glasser, William
Author:
by William Glasser
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Interpersonal Relations
Subject:
Psychology
Subject:
Conduct of life
Subject:
Choice (psychology)
Subject:
General Psychology & Psychiatry
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st HarperPrennial ed.
Publication Date:
February 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
7.84x5.64x.88 in. .64 lbs.

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