Carl Rogers was “born in Chicago, IL Jan 8, 1902” (deCarvalho, 2010) into a “fundamentalist religious home” (Rogers, 1980, p. 27). Growing up, Rogers did not have any close friends in elementary school or high school, which he attributed to his home environment (Rogers, 1980, p. 28-29). His first real experience of comradery came when he went to the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin where he “almost immediately joined a group of fellows that met in a YMCA class” (Rogers, 1980, p.30). Two years later, Rogers shifted his major to History and moved over to the College of Letters and Science (Rogers, 1980, p. 30). While attending college Rogers met Helen Elliot and after four years of dating, they were married in 1924 and
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The “humanistic movement in psychology – focus on the free will of the individual and the democratic relationship between client and therapist was emerging as a reaction to theories espousing philosophical determinism” (Samstag, 2007, p. 295). Rogers’ theories were “somewhat in line with stance of his contemporaries in the interpersonal school, including Harry Stack Sullivan, Clara Thompson, Eric Fromm and Frieda Fromm-Reichman, identified the self as being made up of the reflected appraisals of others” (Samstag, 2007, p. 296). During this era, Hans Strupp and Lester Luborsky were “examining similar features of treatment process, therapist characteristics, and the role of technique vs. relationship factors in effecting outcome’ (Samstag, 2007, p. 296). Rogers client-centred approach to therapy was in stark contrast to “Freudian psychoanalysis where man was understood as being controlled by unconscious forces that operated outside of awareness” (Samstag, 2007, p. 295) and “Skinner’s radical behaviourism which sought to understand human behaviour as a function of reinforcing consequences in the environment” (Samstag, 2007, p. …show more content…
30). Although Rogers theory and approach received considerable criticism, “his emphasis on the client as arbiter of their own subjective experience and the importance he placed on recording sessions for hypothesis testing were radical, anti-authoritarian ideas that remain significant and enduring contributions to the field of psychotherapy” (Samstag, 2007, p. 298).
Rogers published many journal articles and the following books: The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child (1939), Counseling and Psychotherapy (1942), Client-Centered Therapy (1951), On Becoming a Person (1961), The Therapeutic Relationship and Its Impact (1967), Freedom to Learn (1969), Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups (1970), Becoming Partners (1972), Carl Rogers on Personal Power (1977) (deCarvalho,
The “humanistic movement in psychology – focus on the free will of the individual and the democratic relationship between client and therapist was emerging as a reaction to theories espousing philosophical determinism” (Samstag, 2007, p. 295). Rogers’ theories were “somewhat in line with stance of his contemporaries in the interpersonal school, including Harry Stack Sullivan, Clara Thompson, Eric Fromm and Frieda Fromm-Reichman, identified the self as being made up of the reflected appraisals of others” (Samstag, 2007, p. 296). During this era, Hans Strupp and Lester Luborsky were “examining similar features of treatment process, therapist characteristics, and the role of technique vs. relationship factors in effecting outcome’ (Samstag, 2007, p. 296). Rogers client-centred approach to therapy was in stark contrast to “Freudian psychoanalysis where man was understood as being controlled by unconscious forces that operated outside of awareness” (Samstag, 2007, p. 295) and “Skinner’s radical behaviourism which sought to understand human behaviour as a function of reinforcing consequences in the environment” (Samstag, 2007, p. …show more content…
30). Although Rogers theory and approach received considerable criticism, “his emphasis on the client as arbiter of their own subjective experience and the importance he placed on recording sessions for hypothesis testing were radical, anti-authoritarian ideas that remain significant and enduring contributions to the field of psychotherapy” (Samstag, 2007, p. 298).
Rogers published many journal articles and the following books: The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child (1939), Counseling and Psychotherapy (1942), Client-Centered Therapy (1951), On Becoming a Person (1961), The Therapeutic Relationship and Its Impact (1967), Freedom to Learn (1969), Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups (1970), Becoming Partners (1972), Carl Rogers on Personal Power (1977) (deCarvalho,