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Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)

Carl Rogers · c. 1946

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Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

  1. Our reading

    A therapist should refrain from questioning, probing, blame, interpretation, advice, persuasion and reassurance.

    Their wordsThis means reframing from questioning, probing, blame, interpretation, advice, suggestion, persuasion, reassurance.

  2. Our reading

    Most people have growth forces, tendencies toward self-actualization, that can be the sole motivation for therapy.

    Their wordsBut we have not known or recognized that in most if not all individuals there exist growth forces, tendencies toward self-actualization, which may act as the sole motivation for therapy.

  3. Our reading

    The constructive forces within a client can be trusted, and the more they are relied on, the more they are released.

    Their wordsHe has learned that the constructive forces in the individual can be trusted. and that the more deeply they are relied upon, the more deeply they are released.

  4. Our reading

    A relationship of warmth, understanding, safety and acceptance lets a client drop their defensiveness and do the work.

    Their wordsIf the counselor can create a relationship permeated by warmth, understanding, safety from any type of attack, no matter how trivial, and basic acceptance of the person as he is, then the client will drop his natural defensiveness and use the situation.

  5. Our reading

    If the therapist understands how the client sees themselves in the moment, the client can do the rest.

    Their wordshave come to recognize that if we can provide understanding of the way the client seems to himself at this moment, he can do the rest.

  6. Our reading

    Client-centred counselling only works if it is genuine, not a trick for covertly guiding the client.

    Their wordsClient-centered counseling, if it is to be effective, cannot be a trick or a tool. It is not a subtle way of guiding the client while pretending to let him guide himself. To be effective, it must be genuine.

  7. Our reading

    Training in therapy should come before training in diagnosis.

    Their wordsIt appears evident that training and practice in therapy should probably precede training in the field of diagnosis.

  8. Our reading

    Diagnostic knowledge and skill are not necessary for good therapy.

    Their wordsDiagnostic knowledge and skill is not necessary for good therapy, a statement which sounds like blasphemy to many

  9. Our reading

    Human behaviour is shaped by past influences but can also be determined by a person's own creative insight.

    Their wordsThe clinical experience could be summarized by saying that the behavior of the human organism may be determined by the influences to which it has been exposed, but it may also be determined by the creative and integrative insight of the organism itself.

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