Carl Rogers
American psychologist (1902 to 1987), a co-founder of humanistic psychology and creator of person-centred therapy, built on empathy, unconditional acceptance and genuineness; a 1982 survey named him the most influential psychotherapist.
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Their wordsThis means reframing from questioning, probing, blame, interpretation, advice, suggestion, persuasion, reassurance.
↗Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)psychclassics.yorku.ca All 9 from this paper
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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.
↗Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)psychclassics.yorku.ca All 9 from this paper
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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.
↗Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)psychclassics.yorku.ca All 9 from this paper
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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.
↗Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)psychclassics.yorku.ca All 9 from this paper
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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.
↗Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)psychclassics.yorku.ca All 9 from this paper
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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.
↗Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)psychclassics.yorku.ca All 9 from this paper
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Their wordsIt appears evident that training and practice in therapy should probably precede training in the field of diagnosis.
↗Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)psychclassics.yorku.ca All 9 from this paper
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Their wordsDiagnostic knowledge and skill is not necessary for good therapy, a statement which sounds like blasphemy to many
↗Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)psychclassics.yorku.ca All 9 from this paper
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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.
↗Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy (American Psychologist, 1946)psychclassics.yorku.ca All 9 from this paper