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Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry
by Glasser, William
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, 1965. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Startling new approach to mental illness when it was introduced in the 1960s, which broke away from Freudian psychoanalytic & other popular theories & methods of the time & argued against the concept of mental illness itself. The premises of Reality therapy are introduced, & it is contrasted with conventional methods, then its efficacy demonstrated via real-life case studies. 166 pp. Hardcover 8vo has a deep green cloth-wrapped spine, lettered in gilt, with green paper over boards stamped with the publisher's seal in gilt to front. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1965, condition is Near Fine: completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with age-appropriate, even tanning to edges. Former owner's bookplate to ffep, else unmarked. Tiny tear at head of spine & slight rubbing to lower extremities. The price-clipped DJ is VG+, with minor edgewear, tiny chips at spine, light soil; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022191
- Title
- Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry
- Author
- Glasser, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- PSYCHIATRY PSYCHIATRISTS PSYCHOLOGY MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESS TREATMENT METHODS SIXTIES 1960S
- Bookseller catalogs
- Psychology-Psychiatry-Mental Health/Illness;
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La Mesa, California
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