On Becoming a Person

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However, he did compile (and edited) them after he had discovered that he wasn’t writing for psychotherapists, but for “ people – nurses, housewives, people in the business world, priests, ministers, teachers, youth.” A person learns significantly only those things that are perceived as being involved in the maintenance of or enhancement of the structure of self” (Rogers, 1951). Therefore, relevancy to the student is essential for learning. The students' experiences become the core of the course. 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.” I believe,” concludes Rogers, “that this statement holds whether I am speaking of my relationship with a client, with a group of students or staff members, with my family or children. It seems to me that we have here a general hypothesis which offers exciting possibilities for the development of creative, adaptive, autonomous persons.” Becoming a Person

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I believe they became a part of my actions and inner convictions long before I realized them consciously. They are certainly scattered learnings, and incomplete. … I continually learn and relearn them. In a recent study, Rogers was rated by colleagues to be both the sixth most eminent psychologist of the 20 th century and the second most respected clinician, only to Sigmund Freud. “On Becoming A Person PDF Summary”Rogers, Carl (1951). Client-centered therapy: Its current practice, implications and theory. London: Constable. The organism reacts to the field as it is experienced and perceived. This perceptual field is, for the individual, ‘reality’. We see ourselves as the centre of our ‘reality’; that is, our ever- changing world around us. We experience ourselves as the centre of our world, and we can only ‘know’ our own perceptions. If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual, to enter thoroughly and completely and empathically into his frame of reference. It is also a rare thing.

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In therapy the individual learns to recognise and express his feelings as his own feelings, not as a fact about another person. Thus, to say to one’s spouse ‘what you are doing is all wrong.” is likely to lead only to debate. But to say ‘I feel very much annoyed by you are are doing,” is to state one fact about the speaker’s feelings, a fact that no one can deny. IT no longer is an accusation about another, but a feeling which exists in oneself. ‘You are to blame for my feelings of inadequacy,” is a debatable point, but ‘I feel inadequate when you do thus and so’ simply contributes a real fact about the relationship.” To sense the client’s private world as if it were your own, but without ever losing the “as if” quality — this is empathy, and this seems essential to therapy. To sense the client’s anger, fear, or confusion as if were your own, yet without your own anger, fear, or confusion getting bound up in it, is the condition we are endeavouring to describe.” I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people. It has led me to believe that what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.Came across your blog. I welcomed reading about Carl Rogers. Today I heard the sad news of the death of the man who introduced Flow theory and wanted to learn more..and found your