William Glasser

Glasser is an internation aloney recognized psychiatrist. William Glasser was born in 1925. He was raised in Cleveland, OH. His first profession was a Chemical Engineer tho if decided to go into psychiatry when it became app arent to him this was his real interest in life. He at tennerded Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland for medical exam school. At Veterans Administration Hospital he took his psychiatric training to a fault attending UCLA. He became board certified in 1961. He did hush-hush practice from 1957 to 1986. Dr. Glassers approach is non-traditional.He does not believe in the judgment of mental affection unless there is something organically wrong with the brain that throne be confirmed by a pathologist. In 1967, he founded The initiate for Reality Therapy. In 1994, The Institute was renamed The Institute for Control Theory, Reality Therapy and grapheme Management to reflect the scope of The Institutes teachings. Two long time later it became The Willia m Glasser Institute with Dr. Glasser renaming his theory, choice theory. Initially, The Institute was active only in the United States and Canada but under Dr.Glassers direction, his teachings have now feast to many countries (wglasser. com) Glasser is best known for his book Reality Therapy which he wrote in 1965. The idea behind this type of therapy is that citizenry need to meet the fundamental needs of love both giving and receiving and the need of finding self-worth. A therapy that leads all patients toward reality, toward grappling successfully with the tangible and intangible aspects of the real world, superpower accurately be simply called Reality Therapy. Glasser 6) Glasser states the in order for us to fulfill our needs we must have one person that we get by for and in return cares for us to meet our basic needs. Reality Therapy is found on Choice Theory. Choice theory states that all we do is behave, that or so all sort is chosen, and that we are driven by our gen es to occupy flipper basic needs survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun. There are ten axioms that go along with this theory as well they are all follows 1. The only person whose behavior we can control is our own. 2.All we can croak another person is information. 3. All long lasting psychological problems are relationship problems. 4. The problem relationship is always part of our present life. 5. What happened in the past has everything to do with what we are today, but we can only satisfy or basic needs right now and plan to watch satisfying them in the future. 6. We can only satisfy our needs by satisfying the pictures in our Quality World. 7. All we do is behave. 8. All behavior is Total way and is make up of for components performing, thinking, feeling, and physiology. . All Total Behavior is chosen, but we only have direct control over the acting and thinking components. We can only control our feeling and physiology indirectly by dint of how we choose to act and think. 10. All Total Behavior is designated by verbs and named by the part that is most recognizable. (wglasser. com) Dr. Glasser is semi-retired, but is still a much sought-after(prenominal) speaker nationally and internationally. Some of his many accomplishments are as followslisted in Whos Who in America since the 1970s 1990 awarded an honorary degree of twist of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa from the University of San Francisco 2003 presented with the ACA Professional Development demonstrate recognizing the significant contributions made to the field of counseling 2004 presented with the A Legend in Counseling Award by the ACA January 2005 presented with the prestigious Master Therapist designation by the American Psychotherapy Association and finally, 2005 presented with the Life Achievement Award by the outside(a) Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology for his enormous influence as a psychotherapist and author. wglasser. com) William Glassers method s of psychity are very useful. He teaches people to love them self and others. If you have a so called mental illness he tries to get to the under lying cause believing that you only have a mental illness if it can be turn up by Drs. Glasser still does speaking about his theories. Works cited 1. William Glasser Institute. Oct. 6, 2009. www. wglasser. com 2. Glasser, William. Reality Therapy. newborn York. Harper& Row 1990.