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Who was Carl Rogers?

 
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Carl Rogers


Born January 8, 1902(1902-01-08)
Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Died February 4, 1987 (aged 85)
San Diego, California, U.S.

Nationality American
Fields Psychology
Institutions Ohio State University
University of Chicago
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Western Behavioral Sciences Institute
Center for Studies of the Person
Alma mater University of Wisconsin–Madison
Teachers College, Columbia University
Known for The Person-centered approach (e.g., Client-centered therapy, Student-centered learning)
Influences Otto Rank, Kurt Goldstein
Notable awards Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1956, APA); Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychology as a Professional Practice (1972, APA)
Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956. The Person-centered approach, his own unique approach to understanding personality and human relationships, found wide application in various domains such as psychotherapy and counseling (Client-centered therapy), education (Student-centered learning), organizations, and other group settings. For his professional work he was bestowed the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Psychology by the APA in 1972. Towards the end of his life Carl Rogers was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with national intergroup conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland.[1] In an empirical study by Haggbloom et al. (2002) using six criteria such as citations and recognition, Rogers was found to be the sixth most eminent psychologist of the 20th Century and among clinicians, second only to Sigmund Freud.[2]

Contents
1 Biography
2 Theory
2.1 Nineteen Propositions
2.2 Development of the Personality
2.3 The Fully Functioning Person
2.4 Incongruity
2.5 Psychopathology
3 Applications
4 ELIZA
5 References
6 Selected Works
7 See also
8 External links


What did he write?

Rogers, Carl. (1939). Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child.
Rogers, Carl. (1942). Counseling and Psychotherapy: Newer Concepts in Practice.
Rogers, Carl. (1951). Client-centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory. London: Constable. ISBN 1-84119-840-4. Excerpts
Rogers, Carl. (1959). A Theory of Therapy, Personality and Interpersonal Relationships as Developed in the Client-centered Framework. In (ed.) S. Koch, Psychology: A Study of a Science. Vol. 3: Formulations of the Person and the Social Context. New York: McGraw Hill.
Rogers, Carl. (1961). On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy. London: Constable. ISBN 1-84529-057-7.
Rogers, Carl. (1969). Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become. (1st ed.) Columbus, Ohio: Charles Merill. Excerpts
Rogers, Carl. (1970). On Encounter Groups. New York: Harper and Row.
Rogers, Carl. (1977). On Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact.
Rogers, Carl. (1980). A Way of Being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

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Carl Rogers 1902-87, American psychologist, b. Oak Park, Ill. In 1930, Rogers served as director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Rochester, New York. He lectured at the Univ. of Rochester (1935-40), Ohio State Univ. (1940-44), and the Univ. of Chicago (1945-57), where he helped to found a therapeutic counseling center. After teaching at Univ. of Wisconsin until 1963, he became a resident at the new Center for Studies of the Person in La Jolla. A prominent figure in the humanistic school of psychology, Rogers is best known for his client-centered therapy, which suggested that the client should have as much impact on the direction of the therapy as the psychologist. His works include Client-Centered Therapy (1951) and On Becoming a Person (1961).

Some Reviews of On Becoming a Person

90 of 91 people found the following review helpful:
A Transforming Text
I was given this book in 1973 when I was a senior in college and wished to attend graduate school in clinical psychology. The book transformed me. I went from page to page recognizing that Roger's spoke directly to me and the way I experienced my relationship with my inner self and soul. This book review is written with the purpose of encouraging others to read this...
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Not for beginners
This is not a book per se. It is a collection of lectures, speeches, talks, and papers from 1940 to this books original publication in 1961. Not really worth the price of admission. Go for one of Rogers more mainstream books. Not for beginners.
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a psychologist with warmth and understanding, September 30, 2009
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I think Carl Rogers's approroach is the best foundational attitude for therapists regardless of their theoretical orientations or choices of techniques to treat different target issues and symptoms. It is also a very good place for human beings to be in order to have meaningul relationships with self and others. Like one of the reviewers wrote, this book along with Viktor Fankl, Rollo May, and maybe Yalom, is a valuable literature for improving our existence. This also is a very easy read. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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For Existentialists, June 17, 2009
By Sarah Quinones "BookLover" (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews


For anyone who has read Viktor Frankl and Rollo May; or anyone who is an existentialist or wants to practice Person-Centered Therapy. Carl Rogers is practical and to the point. His words are full of wisdom and self-reflection. They bring that "aha!" and "precisely" moment over and over again. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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This is a great book. Read this book., February 22, 2009
By Martin H. Dickinson "Walker in the woods, dis... (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews

What is a person? When we think of ourselves, what is the self that we are thinking of? How do we define who we are? Aren't these some of the deepest questions humanity has been facing throughout history? These are the very questions Carl Rogers deals with in On Being a Person. In his essay "What it Means to Become a Person" he describes openness to experience, trust in ones organism, an internal locus of evaluation and willingness to be "a process," as the person who emerges in the healthy process of becoming a person.

Every step of the way Carl Rogers is refreshing, honest, open, even humble about his sweeping conclusions about humanity and personhood. I especially like Chapter 1 "This is Me," originally a talk retrospective of his own career that Rogers delivered at the Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In this wonderful talk, Rogers describes the "learnings" acquired throughout his life and career. Just the very idea of a learning is in itself interesting. Others might describe the acquired wisdom as a teaching. Not Rogers, to him it is a learning, and theat concept implies receptivity, sensitivity and openness.


An example of a learning is this: "In my relationships with persons I have found that it does not help, in the long run to act as though I were something that I am not." He goes on to set forth fourteen total learnings, the last of which is: "Life at its best is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed."

Here is an open, honest discussion of selfhood and personhood, the selves we strive to become. These are ideas we must return to again and again throughout our lives. Wow.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Not for beginners, December 8, 2007
By Dexbet "dexbet" (Colchester, Vermont United States) - See all my reviews

This is not a book per se. It is a collection of lectures, speeches, talks, and papers from 1940 to this books original publication in 1961. Not really worth the price of admission. Go for one of Rogers more mainstream books. Not for beginners. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Process vs Product, May 23, 2007
By N. L. Bradley (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews


For this book, Carl Rogers assembled both original papers and revised papers, that he wrote between 1950 and 1961 for this book, to express his concepts of how one is 'becoming a person'. It is an easy to read book and brings into focus much of the background to today's self-help movement and the concept of 'becoming a person' rather than a finished product. The steps 'to be that self which one truly is" (Soren Kierkegaard. He explains how change works as one grows into the unique individual who is very open, accountable, responsible and aware as well as the importatnce of empathy in our relationships especially within ourself. His work is as relevant today as it was then when it was very revolutionary. Do you know whether you see yourself as a process or a product? Give this a read and you may just find the answer for yourself. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
A humble masterpiece , May 13, 2007
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This book by Carl Rogers on client-centered therapy may lack the drama, the force or the cleverness associated with some books on other forms of psychotherapy. What it doesn't seem to lack is a quiet wisdom that flowed from Rogers' many years of experience and sensitivity to his patients.

Despite some redundancy, being a collection of papers and presentations from Rogers over many years, "On Becoming A Person":

1) presents a branch of psychotherapy distinct from psychoanalysis and learning theories as well as from behaviorism, focused more on basically well people growing than on helping disturbed people get better.

2) is rooted in Roger's positive view of human nature as basically good and constructive, as he discovered in encounters with his patients. Roger's emphasis on empathic understanding, on not imposing theoretical speculations about the clients state of mind and on avoiding forceful interference would seem to avoid some of the abuses associated with some other psychotherapies.

3) presents ideas about the helping relationship that Rogers extended from psychotherapy into other areas such as education. Rogers's nondirective approach suggested to him the possibility of a progressive education free of examinations, of grades, of conclusions, and even of teachers.

4) despite its "fuzziness", Rogers does present some experimental evidence in favor of client-centered therapy as compared to those based on learning theory and behaviorism.

5) Rogers' shows appreciation of the growing power of the behavioral sciences but expresses concern less this science, like other sciences, becomes manipulated by politicians to the detriment of people. He basically wonders, if a culture is to be designed, as Skinner had suggested, what safeguards there are on the designer.

Rogers may seem too rosy and to be cherry-picking his results. The kind of measurements he presents, such as a psychological test measuring "changes in the self" based on self reporting may seem too fuzzy. How long it takes, compared to other available approaches, to get effective change seems not to have been a primary consideration for Rogers and may explain the rise of more recent approaches like Cognitive Therapy and Constructive Living. As a lay person, I respect the humane treatment Rogers recommended toward those entering psychotherapy as clients.

A major contribution by Rogers seems to be his recognition that his clients were not objects to do things to but rather fellow people whose experience he could share in.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Free Individual, September 30, 2006
By JPR Petersen (Amsterdam, Holland) - See all my reviews


The principles in the book 'On Becoming a Person' are good for anyone who loves all ideas on the Free Individual. Scientists who like theories of Personality must know this book. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
EAsier view, November 3, 2005
By E. L. Baker - See all my reviews


I found this book a lot more enjoyable than most other psychotherapy books I've read and made getting through my psychotherapy class a lot easier Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Carl Rogers' classic, October 18, 2005
By Regina M. Young "Dr. R. M. Young" (Rolla, MO, United States) - See all my reviews


This is Carl Rogers' classic and a must-read for everyone interested in getting real with themselves. The critic who edited this version indicates very successfully that there are important parallels between Carl Rogers and Ralph Waldo Emerson. This makes Rogers' philosophy and psychotherapeutic approach a truly American one, one that places the individual in the supreme seat of ultimate authority over his/her own experience and existence. The main message that Rogers develops from many different angles is this one: there is no beast in man, and therefore there is also no need to fear one's innermost thoughts, feelings, longings and desires. "There is only man in man." This was surely a revolutionary message at the time, and remains to be revolutionary to this day, as so many modern-day religionists cling to the idea of man's "innate badness." Rogers most certainly debunks that destructive religious heritage in his work. This book is a pleasure to read. It is written in very simple, yet precise language and goes down "like honey." Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Great Book, April 25, 2005
By William Saunders (Gaithersburg, MD, United States) - See all my reviews



I first read this book as an undergraduate in 1988. I occasionally read it today, as I sometimes see myself within it. As I think of the changes I have gone through and look at the person that I have become (and becoming) I can't help but think that everyone who reads it will gain enormous insight into themselves.

It's a must read for every body.