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4.09 AVERAGE
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slow-paced
Rogers lays out an interesting and insightful narrative from his long experience as a therapist. His work helped bring counseling from the helpful but ambiguous realm of the psychoanalysts to a scientifically rigorous pursuit of healing.
Rogers makes a strong argument that therapy works best when it is client-centered. The goal of therapy in his view is to assist the client in understanding and describing their experiences and struggles in a space where they can do so with a trusted and encouraging person.
While it may seem counterintuitive, Rogers explains the ample research showing that therapy ought not be focusing on finding solutions to a clients' problems, but in simply creating a space in which the client can express them. At our core is a competent self who wants to change and grow. And psychotherapy is a means to bring that out of the client.
Rogers does a good job explaining the statistical techniques used to validate his claims, which I found super interesting.
A lot of the book ends of being an exercise in repeating Rogers' most popular beliefs, to the point that the work features too may excerpts from Rogers' many distinguished lecture series and papers in prominent journals. That said, this book is a good start to understanding the contemporary approach to clinical psychology and it's beginnings with Carl Rogers.
Rogers makes a strong argument that therapy works best when it is client-centered. The goal of therapy in his view is to assist the client in understanding and describing their experiences and struggles in a space where they can do so with a trusted and encouraging person.
While it may seem counterintuitive, Rogers explains the ample research showing that therapy ought not be focusing on finding solutions to a clients' problems, but in simply creating a space in which the client can express them. At our core is a competent self who wants to change and grow. And psychotherapy is a means to bring that out of the client.
Rogers does a good job explaining the statistical techniques used to validate his claims, which I found super interesting.
A lot of the book ends of being an exercise in repeating Rogers' most popular beliefs, to the point that the work features too may excerpts from Rogers' many distinguished lecture series and papers in prominent journals. That said, this book is a good start to understanding the contemporary approach to clinical psychology and it's beginnings with Carl Rogers.
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This book is quite possibly the best book that I have read as a part of my graduate school experience thus far.
This is the third theory book that I have read (Skinner, Jung) and Rogers is the most easy to get along with and understand. Rogers is humble, and every step of the way takes you along his journey to how he developed person centered therapy. At no point does he insist that his theory is the right one, or the only, but he says that his theory is what he has developed from his own experiences.
I would definitely recommend!!
This is the third theory book that I have read (Skinner, Jung) and Rogers is the most easy to get along with and understand. Rogers is humble, and every step of the way takes you along his journey to how he developed person centered therapy. At no point does he insist that his theory is the right one, or the only, but he says that his theory is what he has developed from his own experiences.
I would definitely recommend!!
Starts and finishes strong. The middle sections where he goes out of his way to prove that he has experimental/research chops were tedious to me.
(Audiobook) This is an enlightening although more clinical book than I expected. It is clear enough for a layman Ike me to follow though. I have been given much to reflect on and am considering purchasing a hard copy to make notations. Having been initially published in 1961, the summation at the end is interesting in the context of 2023!
Non-fic psychological book, a few parts were good but mostly it was dry and could have been written much more concisely.
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