The series included a workshop on March 7, given by lecturer, author and psychiatrist Dr. William Glasser, an adjunct professor at CSUN and president of the William Glasser Institute in Chatsworth. The topics are wide-reaching. You never know who they will pass that information onto. Glasser is the pioneer of choice theory and reality therapy. Choice theory states that all human misery is caused by people trying to control others, and that the only behavior we can really control is our own.
Reality therapy provides the practical application of choice theory in a psychotherapy form.
All dysfunctional behavior stems from unsatisfying relationships with the people we are closest to, Glasser said. Everybody needs at least one close relationship. He said reality therapy helps people develop more satisfying relationships by helping them make better choices. Whether it's judged effective or ineffective, it's chosen.