The Carl Rogers Reader

by Carl Rogers

Overview

This remarkable collection provides a personal look at Rogers' youth, marriage, and aging, and also addresses personal growth, education, and "client-centered therapy."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395483572
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/16/1989
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
	Speaking Personally
1.	This Is Me 1961	6
2.	My Own Marriage 1972	29
3.	Growing Old: Or Older and Growing 1980	37
4.	On Reaching 85 1987	56
	The Therapeutic Relationship
5.	A Newer Psychotherapy 1942	63
6.	The Directive Versus the Nondirective Approach 1942	77
7.	The Case of Herbert Bryan 1942	88
8.	The Characteristics of a Helping Relationship 1958	108
9.	Reflection of Feelings and Transference 1986 and 1987	127
10.	A Client-centered/Person-centered Approach to Therapy 1986	135
	The Person in Process
11.	Ellen West--and Loneliness 1961	157
12.	Toward a Modern Approach to Values: The Valuing Process in the Mature Person 1964	168
13.	Shall We Get Married? 1972	186
	Theory and Research
14.	What I Learned from Two Research Studies 1986	203
15.	The Use of Electrically Recorded Interviews in Improving Psychotherapeutic Techniques 1942	211
16.	The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapeutic Personality Change 1957	219
17.	A Theory of Therapy, Personality, and Interpersonal Relationships, As Developed in the Client-Centered Framework 1959	236
	A Human Science
18.	Some Thoughts Regarding the Current Presuppositions of the Behavioral Sciences 1968	263
19.	Toward a More Human Science of the Person 1985	279
	Education
20.	Personal Thoughts on Teaching and Learning 1957	301
21.	The Interpersonal Relationship in the Facilitation of Learning 1967	304
22.	The Politics of Education 1977	323
	The Helping Professions
23.	Can I Be a Facilitative Person in a Group? 1970	339
24.	Some New Challenges to the Helping Professions 1973	357
25.	The Politics of the Helping Professions 1977	376
	A Philosophy of Persons
26.	A Note on "The Nature of Man" 1957	401
27.	A Therapist's View of the Good Life: The Fully Functioning Person 1961	409
28.	Do We Need "A" Reality? 1978	420
	A More Human World
29.	Social Implications 1960	436
30.	Resolving Intercultural Tensions 1977	438
31.	A Psychologist Looks at Nuclear War 1982	445
32.	The Rust Workshop 1986	457
33.	Inside the World of the Soviet Professional 1987	478
	References and Bibliography	505
	Acknowledgments	507
	Index	510

Editorial Reviews

The currently popular publishing ploy of presenting as ``readers'' the exemplary writings of individual social scientists here benefits both Carl Rogers (1902-87) and audiences familiar or unfamiliar with his multifaceted work. Most of the selections have been published previously, some as early as 1942, but they are well arranged here, forming a coherent and informative portrait of Rogers as therapist, researcher, theoretician, educator, philosopher, diplomat, and private person. While ``encounter group'' now seems a buzzword past its prime, the form of person-oriented encounter Rogers helped to institutionalize in clinics, schools, and other professional settings is very much a part of contemporary American social theory. Although a few very academic papers are included, this volume will interest general readers (in part if not in full) as well as specialists.-- Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., Cal.

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