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The founder of reality therapy is William Glasser (1925–2013). Glasser developed two variations of reality therapy. The first was developed in the 1960s and was based on identity theory. Footnote The second has been developed in the past two decades and is based on choice theory. Footnote This second version will
be described in this module.
William Glasser is an internationally recognized psychiatrist. He graduated from Case Western Reserve
Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1953. In 1956, he became a consulting psychiatrist to the Ventura