Carl Rogers

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his sister’s bed, or steal a toy from a friend, he prejudges the experiences as bad and condemns them. Thus, the child behavior comes to be guided not by the degree to which experiences maintain or enhance his self-concept but instead by the likelihood of receiving positive regard from the relevant people in his life. Rogers considered this state of incongruity between self and experience as the most serious obstacle in the path of development towards psychological maturity.
According to Rogers, if parents’ evaluations of children are typically both positive and negative, and they set conditions under which the child feels worthy or unworthy the child he will never be able to recognize him self and his potentials. And his personality will have a very negative impact.

To examine this theory more closely with subsequent exploration of Rogers' view of self and his view of the human condition. A brief overall assessment will conclude the discussion. While Rogers' humanistic conception of personality has both strengths and weaknesses, it is a valuable contribution to the study of persons, recognizing ability, free will and the importance of the self.


VIEWS OF THE AUTHOR

Rogers sees people as basically good or healthy -- or at very least, not bad or ill. In other words, he sees mental health as the normal progression of life, and he sees mental illness, criminality, and other human problems, as distortions of that natural tendency. Rogers approach to the study of persons is phenomenological and idiographic. His view of human behavior is that it is "exquisitely rational”. Furthermore, in his opinion: "the core of man's nature is essentially positive” and he is a "trustworthy organism". These beliefs are reflected in his theory of personality.
Rogers concluded that the innermost core of human nature is essentially purposive, forward-moving, constructive, realistic, and quite trustworthy. He regarded the person as an ac...