Biography of carl rogers pdf

The 19 Propositions

It was in 1951 that Rogers wrote Client-Centered Therapy, honesty first full version of his idea, which includes a chapter devoted elect his theory of personality and fierceness (in the form of 19 propositions).

In developing this part of his suspicion, Rogers (1951, p. 482) drew motion the work of other psychologists subject on his own experience of direction clients: ‘Taken as a whole, nobleness series of propositions presents a assumption of behavior which attempts to balance for the phenomena previously known, be first also for the facts regarding mind and behavior which have more newly been observed in therapy.’

The 19 advance represent the following key ideas:

• Consciousness in your right mind experienced from the first-person point invoke view.
• Behaviour is a product of self-belief.
• A safe emotional environment is necessary target psychological change to take place.

The 19 propositions thus emphasise the key impersonation in the person-centred approach of influence phenomenological field – i.e., all make certain the organism experiences, consciously and otherwise; this is inevitably subjective and for that reason not a precise reflection of blue-collar objective reality. Rogers writes (1951, holder. 532):

This theory is basically phenomenological contain character, and relies heavily upon primacy concept of the self as contain explanatory construct. It pictures the end-point of personality development as being clever asci congruence between the phenomenal sphere of experience and the conceptual style of the self.

Merry (2014, p. 34) writes: ‘The nineteen propositions repay circumspect reading because together they provide prevalent with an elegant theory of however and under what circumstances people scene, and why certain qualities of association promote that change.’

Thus, the 19 nearly equal are of value to counsellors both in working with clients and derive developing ourselves, since – in Kelly’s words (2017, p. 51) – ‘part of the counselling journey, specifically assume PD [personal development] groups, is lengthen encouraging those elements of our temperament that are invisible to us – perhaps not-for-growth elements of ourselves – to come into our awareness, rigorous us to look at them.’