[QUOTE=H3rmit;4065068] Seems to be a much-distributed (on the internet) short article by a grad student who misjudged Glasser when in a course covering Glasser's work.
Maybe it was much-distributed article for a reason? There's an article from the NY Times too:
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When asked whether his prescription of the ''caring habits'' might be construed as naïve, Dr. Glasser said: ''It doesn't go against human nature, but it goes against what everyone believes. I am naïve. I've made a good living being naïve, and people listen to me.''
Most mental-health professionals say there is nothing particularly startling or even original about Dr. Glasser's views on personal responsibility and relationships. Rather, he has popularized and expounded on theories set out decades ago by thinkers like the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, the psychologist Abraham Maslow and the psychotherapist Carl Rogers.
''It's apple pie,'' said Dr. Frank J. Bourke, a psychologist who serves on the project's steering committee, of Dr. Glasser's theories. 'It's mainstream clinical opinion.'
Where Dr. Glasser parts company with most of his fellow psychiatrists is on mental illness. He contends that all mental illness is chosen, even schizophrenia and manic depression. And he does not believe in prescribing medication for any psychiatric disorder, which, in this pharmacologic era, is a bit like a surgeon who refuses to use a knife.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/ny...m&pagewanted=2
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I just sounded like, to me, that it had cult-like underpinnings, which usually tap into others' unconscious psyche to get followers. I'm fairly well-read on psychology and wondered why i never heard of this. It used to be called "Control Therapy" and I hadn't heard of that either.