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Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom Paperback - 1999

by William Glasser

The world-renowned psychiatrist and author of the bestselling "Reality Therapy" offers the culmination of his work--a revolutionary theory that holds that we are all intrinsically motivated by the pleasure that occurs when we satisfy our instinctual needs for survival, love, power, freedom, and fun--and that the only behavior we can actually control is our own.


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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.

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SUPPOSE YOU COULD ask all the people in the world who are not hungry, sick, or poor, people who seem to have a lot to live for, to give you an honest answer to the question, "How are you?"

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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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  • Title Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
  • Author William Glasser
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999-01-06
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780060930141 / 0060930144
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.84 x 5.64 x 0.88 in (19.91 x 14.33 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97036025
  • Dewey Decimal Code 150
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