On Becoming A Person ( Carl Rogers)

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ery honorable goal for therapists, in fact everyone, to pursue.
Chapter four, is Rogers views on objective and subjective relationships in psychotherapy . The objective knowledge or “empirical evidence”, on conditions in the relationship between client and therapist as I understand it is change is not only affected, but like dropping a stone in a pond the ripple effects everyone and everything encountered. I can see how in the hands of a Rogerian student, these ideas could become an ability as effective in exploring and healing the psyche as any other therapeutic intervention and probably better than some.
Chapter five describes some of the directions Rogers's seen as evident in therapy. In many respects, Rogers broke new ground in psychology. It should be noted here once again, Rogers was the first therapist to record and transcribe therapy sessions verbatim, a now traditional practice. As chapter is full of actual verbatim of a client sessions. “The core of mans nature is essentially positive and in successful therapy clients s...