Carl Rogers was born January 8th, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois. He came from a strict religious and ethical upbringing. He was an independent, scientific person. As a child, Rogers was very intelligent. When he pursued post-secondary at University of Wisconsin-Madison, he switched majors from agriculture to history to religion. Later, he doubted his choice and pursued a Master and PhD in Psychology. He studied and wrote books on troubled children. In 1947, he was elected President of the APA. Also, he established counseling center at University of Chicago to test the effectiveness of his client-centered therapy. On Becoming a Person, one of his most famous books, is in which he claimed that people are able to heal and achieve self-growth with
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He thought that for a person to grow, they need an environment with genuineness, acceptance and empathy. Rogers believed that every person could reach their goals, and when they reach their goals is called self-actualization. Rogers rejected behaviorism and psychoanalytic approach in how both schools thought that humans were destined to act a certain way without changing. Behaviourism believes that humans are like robots, and can be conditioned to do anything. Psychoanalysis believes that all humans want is sex and aggression. Rogers disagreed with this, he thought that we behave as we do because of the way we perceive our situation. Rogers thought that all humans had one motive: self-actualization, to fulfill our potential to the fullest. He rejected the negative term patient and instead used client. He also believed that humans are constantly struggling to be more complete and more …show more content…
He graduated with a degree in 1895 at the University of Vienna. Here, he met his wife Raissa Timofeyewna Epstein who was a Russian intellectual and social activist. The two married in 1897, had four children, and two of which would become psychiatrists. He began to practice ophthalmology (performing surgeries and operations on eyes). He worked in an area of Vienna near an amusement park. There, he worked a lot with people from the circus which is a source of inspiration for his ideas on inferiority and compensation. Adler and Freud, along with Rudolf formed the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, of which Adler was the first president. Adler was also a member of the “Wednesday Society”, the beginning of the psychoanalytical movement but was the first to split from Freud’s ideas (even before Jung). Freud considered Adler not as a pupil but as a colleague and Adler admired Freud’s ideas on dreams. and During WWI, Adler was a physician for the Austrian Army. After the war, he did lectures at universities in America and Europe. He died of a heart attack May 28th,
He thought that for a person to grow, they need an environment with genuineness, acceptance and empathy. Rogers believed that every person could reach their goals, and when they reach their goals is called self-actualization. Rogers rejected behaviorism and psychoanalytic approach in how both schools thought that humans were destined to act a certain way without changing. Behaviourism believes that humans are like robots, and can be conditioned to do anything. Psychoanalysis believes that all humans want is sex and aggression. Rogers disagreed with this, he thought that we behave as we do because of the way we perceive our situation. Rogers thought that all humans had one motive: self-actualization, to fulfill our potential to the fullest. He rejected the negative term patient and instead used client. He also believed that humans are constantly struggling to be more complete and more …show more content…
He graduated with a degree in 1895 at the University of Vienna. Here, he met his wife Raissa Timofeyewna Epstein who was a Russian intellectual and social activist. The two married in 1897, had four children, and two of which would become psychiatrists. He began to practice ophthalmology (performing surgeries and operations on eyes). He worked in an area of Vienna near an amusement park. There, he worked a lot with people from the circus which is a source of inspiration for his ideas on inferiority and compensation. Adler and Freud, along with Rudolf formed the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, of which Adler was the first president. Adler was also a member of the “Wednesday Society”, the beginning of the psychoanalytical movement but was the first to split from Freud’s ideas (even before Jung). Freud considered Adler not as a pupil but as a colleague and Adler admired Freud’s ideas on dreams. and During WWI, Adler was a physician for the Austrian Army. After the war, he did lectures at universities in America and Europe. He died of a heart attack May 28th,