On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995 - 420 páginas
In this book one of America's most distinguished psychologists describes his experiences in helping people to discover the path to personal growth through an understanding of their own limitations and potential. What is personal growth? Under what conditions is it possible? How can one person help another? What is creativity, and how can it be fostered? These are some of the issues raised, which challenge many concepts of traditional psychology. Contemporary psychology derives largely from the experimental laboratory, or from Freudian theory. It is preoccupied with minute aspects of animal and human behaviour, or with the mentally ill. But there are rebels, of whom the author counts himself as one, along with Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow and Rollo May, who feel that psychology and psychiatry should be aiming higher, and be more concerned with growth and potentiality in man. The interest of such a psychology is in the production of harmoniously mature individuals, given that we all have qualities and possibilities infinitely capable of development. Successful development makes us more flexible in relationships, more creative, and less open to suggestion and control. This book, philosophical and provocative, summarizes Dr Rogers' experience.Non-technical in its language, it is not only for psychologists and psychiatrists, but for teachers and counsellors, religious and social workers, labour-management specialists and anyone interested in 'becoming'.
 

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This is Me
3
How Can I Be of Help?
29
Some Hypotheses Regarding the Facilitation of Personal Growth
31
The Characteristics of a Helping Relationship
39
What We Know About Psychotherapy Objectively and Subjectively
59
The Process of Becoming a Person
71
Some of the Directions Evident in Therapy
73
What It Means to Become a Person
107
What Are the Implications for Living?
271
Personal Thoughts on Teaching and Learning
273
Significant Learning In Therapy and in Education
279
StudentCentered Teaching as Experienced by a Participant
297
The Implications of ClientCentered Therapy for Family Life
314
Dealing With Breakdowns in Communication Interpersonal and Intergroup
329
A Tentative Formulation of a General Law of Interpersonal Relationships
338
Toward a Theory of Creativity
347

A Process Conception of Psychotherapy
125
A Philosophy of Persons
161
To Be That Self Which One Truly Is A Therapists View of Personal Goals
163
A Therapists View of the Good Life The Fully Functioning Person
183
Getting at the Facts The Place of Research in Psychotherapy
197
Persons or Science? A Philosophical Question
199
Personality Change in Psychotherapy
225
ClientCentered Therapy in Its Context of Research
243
The Behavioral Sciences and the Person
361
The Growing Power of the Behavioral Sciences
363
The Place of the Individual in the New World of the Behavioral Sciences
384
A Chronological Bibliography of the publications of Carl R Rogers 19301960
403
Acknowledgments
413
Index
415
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CARL ROGERS (1902-1987) was one of the most influential psychologists in American history, and the founder of the humanistic psychology movement. He received many honors, including the first Distinguished Professsional Contributor Award and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association.

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