2 The Differences between Reality Therapy and Conventional Therapy
Having described Reality Therapy in the previous chapter, I now wish to make clear the major differences, both in theory and practice, between Reality Therapy and what is widely accepted as conventional psychotherapy. Conventional therapy, based either strictly or loosely upon the psychoanalytic beliefs and teachings of Sigmund Freud, is taught in almost every major college and university in the United States and Canada. Whether it is practiced in an orthodox, Freudian setting in a Park Avenue psychoanalyst’s office or in a loosely structured college counseling service, it embodies the following: