Carl Rogers Person Centered Therapy
CARL ROGERS AND PERSON CENTERED THERAPY
Carl Rogers
Carl Ransome Rogers, the most influential American psychologist of the 20th century was born on the 8th January 1902, in Oak Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He was the fourth child out of the six children. His father Walter A. Rogers was a civil engineer and his mother Julia M. Cushing was a housewife and a devout Pentecostal Christian. He was such a brilliant child that he started school right away at second grade, as he was already able to read before attending kindergarten. Rogers was from a religious family and had a strict upbringing by his parents. He was described as rather isolated, independent, and self disciplined. Rogers, went to the University of Wisconsin to major Agriculture, which he later switched to religion to study for the ministry. At that time he was one of the ten students who were selected to go to Beijing for a conference for six months. His thinking was so broadened due to his experiences there, that he had feelings of uncertainity on some of his basic religious views. After he graduated, he went against his parents wishes and married Helen Elliot and moved to New York City.
Carl Rogers is widely considered to be the one of the fathers to have founded psychotherapy research. He is recognised for the Person - Centered approach. Roger's theory of oneself is considered to be humaistic and phenomenological. His theory is based on 19 propositions. They are :
1. Every individual exists in a continually changing world of experience of which he is the centre.
2. The organism reacts to the field as it is experienced
Carl Rogers
Carl Ransome Rogers, the most influential American psychologist of the 20th century was born on the 8th January 1902, in Oak Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He was the fourth child out of the six children. His father Walter A. Rogers was a civil engineer and his mother Julia M. Cushing was a housewife and a devout Pentecostal Christian. He was such a brilliant child that he started school right away at second grade, as he was already able to read before attending kindergarten. Rogers was from a religious family and had a strict upbringing by his parents. He was described as rather isolated, independent, and self disciplined. Rogers, went to the University of Wisconsin to major Agriculture, which he later switched to religion to study for the ministry. At that time he was one of the ten students who were selected to go to Beijing for a conference for six months. His thinking was so broadened due to his experiences there, that he had feelings of uncertainity on some of his basic religious views. After he graduated, he went against his parents wishes and married Helen Elliot and moved to New York City.
Carl Rogers is widely considered to be the one of the fathers to have founded psychotherapy research. He is recognised for the Person - Centered approach. Roger's theory of oneself is considered to be humaistic and phenomenological. His theory is based on 19 propositions. They are :
1. Every individual exists in a continually changing world of experience of which he is the centre.
2. The organism reacts to the field as it is experienced