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On Becoming a Person
by Carl R. Rogers
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.