William Glasser
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Dr. William Glasser, M.D. was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1925.
William Glasser was educated at Case Western Reserve University, where he received a B.S in 1945 and a M.A. in clinical psychology in 1948. He received his M.D. in 1953 in psychiatry. He completed his psychiatric residency between 1954 and 1957 at UCLA and at the Veterans Administration Hospital of Los Angeles. He was board certified in psychiatry in 1961. The University of San Francisco awarded Dr. Glasser an honorary degree in 1990.
While a practising psychiatrist, he has authored and co-authored numerous books on mental health, counseling, and the improvement of schools and teaching.
He founded the The Institute for Reality Therapy in 1967, which was renamed The Institute for Control Theory, Reality Therapy and Quality Management in 1994 and later The William Glasser Institute in 1996. The institute is located in Chatsworth, California, and has branch institutes throughout the world.
By the 1970s Dr. Glasser called his body of work Control Theory. By 1996, the theoretical structure evolved into a comprehensive body of work renamed Choice Theory, mainly because of the confusion with Perceptual Control Theory by William T. Powers, developed in the 1950s.
Bibliography
- Mental Health or Mental Illness? Psychiatry for Practical Action, 1962
- Reality Therapy, 1965
- The Effect of School Failure on the Life of a Child, 1971
- The Identity Society, 1972
- Schools Without Failure, 1975
- Positive Addiction, 1976
- Stations of the Mind, 1981
- Take Effective Control of Your Life, 1984
- Control Theory, 1985
- Control Theory in the Classroom, 1986
- Control Theory in the Practice of Reality Therapy: Case Studies, 1989
- The Quality School, 1990
- The Quality School Teacher, 1992
- Reclaiming Literature, 1994
- The Control Theory Manager, 1995
- Staying Together, 1996
- Choice Theory, 1997
- Choice Theory in the Classroom Revised, 1998
- Choice: The Flip Side of Control, 1998
- The Quality School Teacher: A Companion Volume to The Quality School, 1998
- Teoria de La Eleccion, 1999
- Reality Therapy in Action, 2000
- Counseling with Choice Theory, 2001
- Fibromyalgia: Hope from a Completely New Perspective, 2001
- Unhappy Teenagers: A Way for Parents and Teachers to Reach Them, 2002
- For Parents and Teenagers: Dissolving the Barrier Between You and Your Teen, 2003
- WARNING: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health, 2004
with co-author Carleen Glasser, M.Ed.
- The Language of Choice Theory, 1999
- What is the Thing Called Love?, 2000
- Getting Together and Staying Together, 2000
