William Glasser

Glasser is an internation bothy recognized psychiatrist. William Glasser was born in 1925. He was raised in Cleveland, OH. His first profession was a Chemical Engineer notwithstanding decided to go into psychiatry when it became patent to him this was his true(a) interest in life. He attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland for health check school. At Veterans Administration Hospital he took his psychiatric training also attending UCLA. He became panel certified in 1961. He did private practice from 1957 to 1986. Dr. Glassers approach is non-traditional.He does not believe in the concept of mental illness unless there is something organic anyy wrong with the brain that can be substantiate by a pathologist. In 1967, he founded The Institute for Reality Therapy. In 1994, The Institute was renamed The Institute for retard Theory, Reality Therapy and Quality Management to reflect the scope of The Institutes teachings. Two years ulterior it became The William Glasser Institute with Dr. Glasser renaming his theory, choice theory. Initially, The Institute was active only in the United States and Canada but chthonic Dr.Glassers luffion, his teachings have now spread 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 plurality need to meet the basal of necessity of love two 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, might 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 care for and in return cares for us to meet our canonic needs. Reality Therapy is based on Choice Theory. Choice theory states that all we do is behave, that almost all behavior is chosen, and that we are driven by our genes to gra tify five basic needs survival, love and belonging, power, liberty 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 told we can give another person is information. 3. All long lasting psychological problems are relationship problems. 4. The problem relationship is always part of our bow 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 continue 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 broad(a) Behavior and is made up of for components acting, 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 through and through 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 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 Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris showcase from the University of San Francisco 2003 presented with the ACA Professional Development Award 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 International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and psychology for his enormous influence as a psychotherapist and author. wglasser. com) William Glassers methods of psych ity 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 proven 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. New York. Harper& language 1990.