Client Centred Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

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The publication is expected to be a bit outdated from the earliest manuscript in the 50s. The research support also seems to be meek, but again, psychology was and can still be considered in its infancy. The best vantage point for understanding behavior is from the internal frame of reference of the individual himself” (494).

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-03-07 01:00:54 Boxid IA40068421 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-658 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifierIn Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory, Carl R. Rogers, Elaine Dorfman, Thomas Gordan, and Nicholas Hobbs, present a synthesis of the basic philosophy of nondirectional counseling. This book exposes the meaning through which personal counseling is achieved through a subtle process of self-realization. Equally admirable is Rogers' claim that the therapist must involve himself personally in the therapeutic process. He made that claim against all common wisdom that the therapist ought to be emotionally detached from the process. How could this make sense, given Rogers' approach of offering the client a non-judgmental, non-personal mirror? For Rogers, the warm attitude of the practitioner for the client, the love (if he dares to go that deep) is felt by the client, and that love assists the client in the scary process of exploring his inner depths. For Rogers, a therapy room where the practitioner forbids himself to involve himself emotionally to the client sends a message: in this room it is unsafe to explore emotions. Carl Rogers theorized that this level of disintegration and reintegration of the self can only occur in the total absence of judgment, in an environment of positive acceptance.

Carl Rogers states that these conflicts create psychological tension, defensiveness, and that an individual is "ripe" for therapy once that tension becomes unbearable. I felt that the first part of the book was helpful in defining the idea of client-centered therapy, expanding on the idea of how the process of this type of therapy is experienced by both the client and the counselor, and how this type of therapy can be beneficial in facilitating change in the client and helping the client achieve a more adjusted and integrated sense of self. C]lient-centered therapy, with the intense focusing upon self which it involves, has as its end result, not more self-consciousness, but less. One might say that there is less self-consciousness and more self…That the self functions smoothly in experience, rather than being an object of introspection. Or as one client states in a follow-up interview one year after the conclusion of therapy: ‘I’m not self-conscious like I used to be…I don’t concentrate on being myself. I just am’” (129). Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-03-04 11:01:47 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1778810 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifierurn:lcp:clientcenteredth0000roge_a7x6:epub:fb772da4-d68d-4beb-bb3b-1fcab99b2487 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier clientcenteredth0000roge_a7x6 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4fp1fr89 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0395053226