Gary klein and william glasser doctors essay

“It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.” During his lifetime, Dr. Glasser maintained a very active schedule and was a much sought-after speaker, nationally and internationally.

He finally concluded that the cause of almost all psychological symptoms is our inability to get along with the important people in our lives. By 1980, he had begun to form the idea that led to Choice Theory®: why so many people are unhappy in their relationships. He believed that only human beings are genetically driven by the need for power.

Up to now, over ninety thousand people worldwide have taken intensive training to gain knowledge on how to apply his ideas in their personal and professional lives. “What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.”

Dr. Glasser is an internationally recognized psychiatrist who is best known as the creator of Choice Theory and author of Reality Therapy, a method of psychotherapy he created in 1965 and that is now taught all over the world. “We may be up against a stone wall, but we don’t have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.”