In Choice Theory, Dr. William Glasser offers readers a new and far more effective way to get along with the people in our lives. He explains convincingly that, barring severe poverty or untreatable illness, unsatisfying or disconnecting relationships are the source of almost all crime, addiction, and mental illness, as well as marital, family, and school failure. For progress in human relationships, he explains that we must give up the punishing, relationship-destroying external control psychology that is by far the dominant one in the world. In one of this century’s most significant books on psychology, Dr. Glasser offers choice theory, a noncontrolling psychology that gives us the freedom to sustain the relationships that lead to healthy, productive lives.