Rogers, C.R., Raskin, N.J., et al. (1949). A coordinated research in psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 13, 149–200. Cited in: N.J. Raskin, The first 50 years and the next 10. Person-Centered Review, 5(4), November 1990, 364–372. Find sources: "Carl Rogers"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Stein, Arthur (1985). Seeds of the Seventies: Values, Work, and Commitment in Post-Vietnam America. University Press of New England, p. 136 (on Rogers as "founding sponsor" of the Alliance's newsletter) and pp. 134–139 (on the Alliance generally). ISBN 978-0-87451-343-1.

another way of learning for me is to state my own uncertainties, to try to clarify my puzzlements, and thus get closer to the meaning that my experience actually seems to have.” Kramer, Robert. "The Birth of Client-Centered Therapy: Carl Rogers, Otto Rank, and 'The Beyond'". Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 35.4 (1995) p. 54-110. Porter, E.H. (1941) The development and evaluation of a measure of counseling interview procedure. Ph. D. Dissertation, Ohio State University. Experience which, if assimilated, would involve a change in the organization of self, tends to be resisted through denial or distortion of symbolism" (Rogers, 1951). If the content or presentation of a course is inconsistent with preconceived information, the student will learn if they are open to varying concepts. Being open to concepts that vary from one's own is vital to learning. Therefore, gently encouraging open-mindedness is helpful in engaging the student in learning. Also, it is important, for this reason, that new information be relevant and related to existing experience.What may bring you to that state of being may be challenging for others, and vice versa. Think about when you find yourself in this state most often, and try doing more of that. For any students of psychotherapy reading this, I would like to share an important idea that is NOT explicitly stated in the book (maybe rightly so, but) what I feel Rogers is implying in On Becoming a Person is that therapists using the humanistic method are not in a position to say what a client can or can’t do with their consciousness or their experience. Essentially for every client who seeks the services and relationship with Humanistic therapist, your client has a right to stay who you they are.... even if they overtly state that they have no wish to change. Ironically, it’s not about change. Nor is it about a therapist encouraging (or forcing) the client to change in a way the therapist wants to see. It’s about the therapist providing an environment that gets the client tuned into themselves. Facilitating their awareness and increasing the acceptance of their own experience which builds their congruence and thus their sense of authentic self… the proof of whether this facilitates change or not is in the therapeutic process. References Under certain conditions, involving primarily complete absence of threat to the self structure, experiences inconsistent with it may be perceived and examined, and the structure of self revised to assimilate and include such experiences. So while I still hate to readjust my thinking, still hate to give up old ways of perceiving and conceptualizing, yet at some deeper level I have, to a considerable degree, come to realize that these painful reorganizations are what is known as learning,” We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know. Carl Rogers

Smith, D. (1982). "Trends in counseling and psychotherapy". American Psychologist. 37 (7): 802–809. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.37.7.802. PMID 7137698. Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1956, APA); Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychology as a Professional Practice (1972, APA); 1964 Humanist of the Year ( American Humanist Association) Perhaps partly because of the troubling business of being struggled over, I have come to value highly the privilege of getting away, of being alone. It has seemed to me that my most fruitful periods of work are the times when I have been able to get completely away from what others think, from professional expectations and daily demands, and gain perspective on what I am doing.” Rogers believed that people were always in the process of changing and growing and that striving for self-actualization leads people to pursue happiness and fulfillment. It is important to understand the distinction between personality and change as PCT does attempt to cure the illness, rather it aims to facilitate the process of growth, which is believed to be innate in the organism. As such, PCT does not support “illness- diagnosis- treatment-cure” medical model. There is tendency in 21st century for people to put responsibility for personal distress to physiological or genetic sphere, however Person Centred Therapy views depression as consequence of internal and environmental conditions that are based on a person’s sense of their conditions of worth (Sanders, 2006).

Rogers originally developed his theory as the foundation for a system of therapy. He initially called it "non-directive therapy" but later replaced the term "non-directive" with "client-centered", and still later "person-centered". Even before the publication of Client-Centered Therapy in 1951, Rogers believed the principles he was describing could be applied in a variety of contexts, not just in therapy. As a result, he started to use the term person-centered approach to describe his overall theory. Person-centered therapy is the application of the person-centered approach to therapy. Other applications include a theory of personality, interpersonal relations, education, nursing, cross-cultural relations and other "helping" professions and situations. In 1946 Rogers co-authored "Counseling with Returned Servicemen" with John L. Wallen (the creator of the behavioral model known as The Interpersonal Gap), [27] documenting the application of person-centered approach to counseling military personnel returning from World War II. Isenhart, Myra Warren, and Spangle, Michael L. (2000). Collaborative Approaches to Resolving Conflict. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-1930-8.