If you are so inclined to “really” read the book (sorry for my transference in this comment, it just appears that some of the reviewers failed to read the book, or grasp its concepts), I would highly suggest that you take your time and understand the last chapter, “A Theory of Personality and Behavior,” as the culmination, or “proof” if you will, about the fundamental soundness of the client-centered approach to counseling. Equally admirable is Rogers' claim that the therapist must involve himself personally in the therapeutic process. He made that claim against all common wisdom that the therapist ought to be emotionally detached from the process. How could this make sense, given Rogers' approach of offering the client a non-judgmental, non-personal mirror? For Rogers, the warm attitude of the practitioner for the client, the love (if he dares to go that deep) is felt by the client, and that love assists the client in the scary process of exploring his inner depths. For Rogers, a therapy room where the practitioner forbids himself to involve himself emotionally to the client sends a message: in this room it is unsafe to explore emotions. Grinnell College had about 1200 students and a generally middle-aged faculty devoted to teaching. The younger teachers were there either as visiting instructors or on probation, hoping for regular appointments. The faculty of the Department of Psychology were basically experimentalists, not psychotherapeutically inclined.

Thus, when I returned to college newly interested in psychology after being out of it during the 1971/72 year owing to problems with the draft board, there were few classes in the catalog which spoke to my particular interests in the field. Fortunately, two of the new visiting professors, names, but not faces, now forgotten, were psychotherapists and agreed to offer independent and group independent studies on their own particular interests in what was called "humanistic" psychology. I read Roger's CCT in such a context, my second exposure to him, the first having been in an earlier EdPsych class. PDF / EPUB File Name: Client_Centered_Therapy_New_Ed_-_Carl_Rogers.pdf, Client_Centered_Therapy_New_Ed_-_Carl_Rogers.epub Lccn 51009139 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-7-gc75f Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9808 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18582 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-03-07 01:00:54 Boxid IA40068421 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-658 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier What happens next is what makes Client Centered Therapy more subtle and complex than the touchy-feely impression people may get from it. Once the client has reached the layer of inner conflict, a psychological disintegration occurs. The old model of the world is shattered and the client finds himself psychologically lost. From this disintegration, the client comes to build a new model of the world that encapsulates contradictory experiences without conflict. The client doesn't leave the therapeutic process with fixed answers, one could say that they feel more lost after therapy than before, but therapy has equipped him with the ability to navigate the confusion of his inner contradictions.This text expresses the deeply held belief that what is genuine and has real meaning cannot sometimes be expressed in words. Nondirective counseling is thought of as a process and experience in a dynamic relationship. One side note that I loved: through the exploration of his unconscious experiences and resolving his conflicts, the client comes to develop a more accurate symbolization of reality, a better representation. One can stop saying "my mother is bad", for a more accurate "she is denigrating in some aspects, but she cares about me in others". In Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory, Carl R. Rogers, Elaine Dorfman, Thomas Gordan, and Nicholas Hobbs, present a synthesis of the basic philosophy of nondirectional counseling. This book exposes the meaning through which personal counseling is achieved through a subtle process of self-realization.

I had a general concept of client-centered therapy and a client-centered approach to counseling that I had acquired through working at my social service agency for the past thirteen years, but through reading this book I came to fully understand the foundational concepts of this approach and how it might work in implementation with clients in real life scenarios. I do not fully agree that a nondirective approach would work in all cases, but I feel that there is much benefit in beginning the counseling relationship with the idea that a client is worthy of respect and should be seen as someone who has an ability to make changes himself rather than someone needing to be taught the answers by the counselor. I also found the emphasis placed on the importance of the counselor having a genuine attitude of acceptance and empathy, as well as being comitted to achieving a high level of personal awareness and growth to be a refreshing reminder. My appreciation for Rogers is deeply magnified by the fact that he was a ruthless seeker of truth, wherever it may lead. He was cautious to submit his model of therapy to the scientific method and, when available, he defended his ideas with academic studies. When his ideas were unproven, he had the intellectual honesty to highlight the potential weak spots of his theory. urn:lcp:clientcenteredth0000roge_a7x6:epub:fb772da4-d68d-4beb-bb3b-1fcab99b2487 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier clientcenteredth0000roge_a7x6 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4fp1fr89 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0395053226 What "conflicts" are we talking about, in Client Centered Therapy? Conflicts are either internal, or internal-external. Internal conflicts are when two tendencies are in contradiction (eg: a gay person in the closet). Inner-external conflicts are when an individual's internal representation of himself and the world is in conflict with his experience of the world. An example would be when someone has convinced himself of being a genius, yet fails to get decent grades at school.

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Maybe this approximation is only my own but I found Rogers' view to be similar to that of Zen Buddhism. The "goal" appears to be consistence and congruence of self-concept with the actual self, if it can be so called a "goal" in such an approach as this which attempts to free itself from value-judgments. Zen of course claims to also not be wholly transmitted through words but I would at least approximate it to experiencing experience.

Carl Rogers states that these conflicts create psychological tension, defensiveness, and that an individual is "ripe" for therapy once that tension becomes unbearable. Where other schools of psychology had a flavor of armchair philosophy, Rogers meticulously studied transcripts of his therapy sessions, trying to identify what worked and what didn't. His Client Centered theory was not a top-down theory of the mind, rather a bottom-up set of ideas abstracted out of countless experiences in the therapy office. He was also concerned with the matter of measuring whether therapy actually improved an individual's life or not, although he failed to come up with a satisfying way to measure therapeutic outcome. The best vantage point for understanding behavior is from the internal frame of reference of the individual himself” (494). Presenting the non-directive and related points of view in counselling and therapy, Rogers gives a clear exposition of procedures by which individuals who are being counselled may be assisted in achieving for themselves new and more effective personality adjustments. Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory by Carl R. Rogers – eBook DetailsAccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-03-04 11:01:47 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1778810 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier