Research Catalog

Title

Take effective control of your life / William Glasser.

Author

Glasser, William, 1925-2013.

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, ©1984.

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Details

Description

xiv, 240 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Explains the inner basis of all our behavior and feelings and the way by which we may control our emotions and actions for healthier, productive lives.

Subject

• Control (Psychology)
• Imagery (Psychology) > Therapeutic use
• Emotions
• Performance
• Imagination
• Locus of control
• Athletic ability
• Performance technology
• Imagination
• Emotions
• Internal-External Control
• Power, Psychological
• Task Performance and Analysis
• imagination
• emotion
• Performance technology
• Locus of control
• Athletic ability
• Imagery (Psychology) > Therapeutic use
• Performance
• Psychology, Applied
• Success

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Everything we think, do, and feel is generated by what happens inside of us -- Our basic needs : the powerful forces that drive us -- The pictures in our heads -- What makes us behave -- We are a control system -- We always have control over what we do -- Why it makes sense to choose misery -- Why we are unaware that we choose much of our misery -- The values in our cameras -- Creativity and reorganization -- Craziness, creativity, and responsibility -- Psychosomatic illness as a creative process -- Addicting drugs : "chemical control" of our lives -- Other common addicting drugs, legal and illegal -- Conflict -- Criticism -- Taking control of your life -- Control theory and raising children -- Controlling ourselves or others with pain or misery -- Taking control of our health -- How to start using control theory.

ISBN

• 0060153423
• 9780060153427

LCCN

84047574

OCLC

• ocm10696798
• 10696798
• SCSB-613954

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library