A Look at the Reality Therapy Method

clwe choose to be.”
Reality therapy is a method for building up aThe founder of this theory was William Glasser who
person’s level of mental satisfaction andbegan his work in this area in the 1980’s. He
helping them feel connected to the world aroundrejected the Freudian model of psychoanalysis early
them. It is also known as choice theory. The beston in his career and began to look for an alternate
definition of reality therapy was given by Geraldmethod to guide and shape human behaviours.
Corey. He states that “the essence ofGlasser first named this school of therapy
reality therapy is that we are responsible for what“reality therapy” but later changed
we choose to do. We may be the product of ourthe name to “choice theory”. This
past but we are not the victims of our past, unlesstheory urges an individual to focus on the future.