What is Reality Therapy?
This clip I posted on YouTube has inadvertently exposed me to new ideas:
Someone on YouTube responded saying that their professor played this same clip in a Cultural Psychology class as an example of "Reality Therapy." I've since did some research, and I'm going to check out William Glasser's Choice Therapy: A New Psychology for Personal Freedom.
This looks promising, and it may be the antidote to the problems of Victimization and Empowerment suggested in SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless.
At the same time, though, it kind of sounds like a glorified version of Dr. Phil's "Get Real" mantra.
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Kim said on May 11, 2009 8:40 PM
FYI- Glasser wrote Reality Therapy in 1965, a bit before Dr. Phil became a "hit." I've thought Dr. Phil has been using Reality Therapy quite badly for years. I use RT in my practice and am an instructor of Glasser's ideas through his institute. It's great stuff. Check out my website at http://www.realitytherapycentral.com.
Philosophistry said on May 11, 2009 8:42 PM
Yeah, that probably should have read the other way around. Like, "Dr. Phil is a twisted abstraction of Reality Therapy."