Staying Together: The Control Theory Guide to a Lasting Marriage - Hardcover

Glasser, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060172479 ISBN 13: 9780060172473

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

Examines the characteristics of lasting relationships while applying Control Theory as the basis for explaining the key difference between sex and sexual love and citing friendship as the essential part of any successful marriage.

About this title

About the Author:

William Glasser, M.D., is a world-renowned psychiatrist who lectures widely. His numerous books have sold 1.7 million copies, and he has trained thousands of counselors in his Choice Theory and Reality Therapy approaches. He is also the president of the William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles.

From Publishers Weekly:

"There are too many married strangers," asserts Glasser, originator of Reality Therapy and the Control Theory. Here he applies his principles to romantic and sexual relationships. Human beings, to be fulfilled, must satisfy one or more of five needs: survival, love, power, freedom and fun. These are genetically based, and not everyone's needs are the same. Thus the interplay of different needs determines whether a match is workable. For example, those with a high need for love should probably avoid those with a strong drive for freedom unless other needs balance out. Although two "high-power" people are nearly always ill-matched, according to the author, high-love pairs are not. By determining what makes us happy?our "quality world"?we can decide how to stop "choosing" behaviors in potential partners that lead to misery for both. Included is a test designed to help readers and their spouses discover their needs and thus their compatibility. A thought-provoking addition to the self-help genre.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0060172479
• ISBN 13: 9780060172473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 133