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Choice Theory

Name: Choice Theory
ISBN: 9780060930141

A New Psychology of Personal Freedom

William Glasser, M.D.

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · January 6, 1999

Reading lane: Behavioral Psychology

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Rethinking Control

A psychology of relationships that turns attention from the past toward what is happening now.

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A fresh way to think about unhappiness and strained relationships
Questions about how control shapes the way people get along

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A direct challenge to punishing, relationship-destroying control
A focus on present relationships and personal freedom

Book Details

Authors: William Glasser, M.D.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: January 6, 1999
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Behavioral Psychology · Humanistic Approaches
Reading lane: Behavioral Psychology

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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.