false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172624399m/199754.jpg 199754 3 Southern California psychiatrist William Glasser, the author of <i>Reality Therapy</i>, believes that almost all human misery is caused by people trying to control others. In fact, he says, the only behavior we can control is our own; by the same token, no one can make us do anything we don't want to. It's only when we give up spending our energy trying to force others to conform to our ideas or to keep them from doing the same to us that we are able to live the way we want to. Glasser makes this somewhat difficult material easier to understand with examples and case studies from his own practice. For instance, he tells a man whose wife has left him that his only choices are to change what he wants her to do or to change the way he is dealing with her. While doing these things will not necessarily bring his wife back, Glasser says, it will certainly make him feel better. "When we actually begin to realize that we can control only our own behavior, we immediately start to redefine our personal freedom and find, in many instances, that we have much more freedom than we realize," Glasser writes. 193245 1998 Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom total:96|5:24|4:36|3:25|2:6|1:5| 96 356 178 22 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 16 09:28:37 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 09:32:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 12:27:45 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 13:04:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 22:37:43 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 19:46:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Mar 15 06:50:57 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 06:50:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 19:38:07 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 13:22:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Dec 26 08:31:02 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 08:37:40 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jan 27 19:11:37 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 19:12:01 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sat Jul 25 16:48:14 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 19:00:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 08 11:34:09 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 11:38:53 -0700 2008
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