Fibromyalgia: Hope from a Completely New Perspective - Softcover

Glasser W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967844428 ISBN 13: 9780967844428

Publisher: Harpercollins World, 2001

Synopsis

Here is Dr. Glasser’s latest work applying Choice Theory as an aid to sufferers of this perplexing disease and offering, as stated in the title, hope from a completely new perspective. The medical community has found no pathology associated with fibromyalgia, and herein lies the hope. If there is no pathology, you could not possibly do harm by trying to help yourself. Dr. Glasser explains how sufferers can learn to put Choice Theory to work in their lives and gain relief from their symptoms.

About this title

About the Author:

William Glasser, M.D. is the president of the William Glasser Institute, an organization of over six thousand Reality Therapy Certified people who teach and practice Choice Theory and Reality Therapy all over the world. He is a board-certified psychiatrist who has written over fifteen books, which HarperCollins has published. These books have been translated into almost every major language and have sold more than two million copies. The best known of these are Reality Therapy, Schools Without Failure and Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom.

He has worked in every aspect of psychiatry, and for nine years was the psychiatrist for the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital where he specialized in dealing with chronic pain and disability of unknown origin. He has also worked for over forty years in public schools and is known for this work all over the world. He is a board member of The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry founded and directed by Dr. Peter Breggin. This center is dedicated to bringing compassion and caring back into mental health and fighting against the overuse and inappropriate use of psychiatric drugs. Dr. Glasser teaches and lectures all over the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins World
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0967844428
• ISBN 13: 9780967844428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 129