Choice Theory
A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · January 6, 1999
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- Who it’s for
- A psychology of relationships that turns attention from the past toward what is happening now.
- Themes
- Human relationships, External control psychology, Present-focused unhappiness
- Genres
- Relationships, Therapy & Counseling, Self-Help
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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.
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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.
Rethinking Control
A psychology of relationships that turns attention from the past toward what is happening now.
Come here for
- A fresh way to think about unhappiness and strained relationships
- Questions about how control shapes the way people get along
Expect
- A direct challenge to punishing, relationship-destroying control
- A focus on present relationships and personal freedom
Where it sits
| Relationships | 36% |
|---|---|
| Self-Help | 23% |
| Therapy & Counseling | 19% |
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- School Counseling
- Child Abuse
- Babies & Toddlers
- Family & Relationships
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- Raising Teenagers
- Medical Education & Training
- Neuroscience
- Medical Reference
- Authors
- William Glasser, M.D.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- January 6, 1999
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Human relationships · External control psychology · Present-focused unhappiness
- Reading lane
- School Counseling