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Carl Rogers Biography

Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach (or client-centered approach) to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1956.

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If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

Despair, Feuds, Look, Mean, Seriously, War

The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.

Attitude, Caring, Stupidity, Part, Say

Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.

Bridges, Island, Islands, Permitted, Real, Sense

There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of the person, no matter what that might be, there is the universal. Hidden in all of the personal communications which I really hear there seem to be orderly psychological laws, aspects of the same order we find in the universe as a whole. So there is both the satisfaction of hearing this person and also the satisfaction of feeling one's self in touch with what is universally true.

Communication, Hearing, Message, Order, Satisfaction, Self

I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them.

Conceal, Feelings, May, Rewarding, Upset

Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future

Attitude, Acceptance, Skills, Help, Freedom, Gain

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".

Empathy, Evil, Free, Quality, True

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

Completely, Hopeless, Keenly, Life, Modern, Useless

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

Believe, Forced, People, Religious, Sincere, Thinking

When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another.

Believe, Confused, Deep, Gentle, Hurt, Illumination

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

Days, Everything, Free, Life, Price, These Days

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

Conforming, Diversity, Group, Life, Movement, Opportunity

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Education, Inspirational, Know, People, Teach, Teacher

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

Focus, Goes On, Learner, Learning, Real, Tends

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

Blame, Blames, Helped, Inspirational, Person, Persons

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Behavior, Health, Neurotic, Predictable, Unpredictable

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

Life, People, Real, Worlds

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

Adults, Attitude, Children, Good, Lacks, Thinking

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Central, Majority, People, Search, Self Esteem

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

Authoritative, Becoming, Ideas, Process, Return

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