Anyone tried Glasser's "Control Theory"?

asiwassayin

Am reading the book at the minute - pretty interesting stuff.

Anyone had any experience trying out the ideas or helping someone in a counseling capacity using the concepts?

thanks..

hotspur

You are reading an outdated version of his thinking, you need to pick up his later book Choice Theory, you can get it in Hodgis Figis for about a tenner. It's a little book I recommend to people.

Choice theory and his concept of total behaviour are very useful in my opinion and he integrates them into his reality therapy. If you want to read about his application of Choice Theory in psychotherapy then also get his book Counselling with Choice Theory, this is an interesting book where each chapter he provides dialogue of him doing therapy with the concepts for a different type of client.

Also it might be instructive to read Robert Wubbolding's book Reality Therapy For The 21st Century, this is a more rigorous and systematic book, however it is probably only useful if you are interested in it from a training perspective.

Choice Theory and Reality Therapy can be trained in here in Ireland through the IICP:
http://www.iicp.ie/index.htm

There's also a William Glasser Institute here:
http://www.wgii.ie/

Ultimately it's a CBT modality and reality therapy has shown to be efficacious in the research.

asiwassayin

very comprehensive reply - thanks!