On Becoming a Person

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Here, Rogers advises that Person-Centred Therapy (PCT) is not to ask oneself ‘what treatment or cure can one provide?

Psychological maladjustment exists when the organism denies awareness of significant sensory and visceral experiences, which consequently are not symbolized and organized into the gestalt of the self structure. He and his followers have demonstrated a humanistic approach to conducting therapy and a scientific approach to evaluating therapy need not be incompatible.Again, it’s not to say that this is better than Roger’s description but to provide a way how show that change process of personality is a fluidity in itself that ebbs and flows. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another.

With an implicit combination of Unconditional Positive Regard, Empathy and Therapist Congruence, the process of change itself hinges on the extent that the client experiences these conditions for construing themselves as being received in the ‘here and now’ of the therapy.

S. political initiatives, including the "12-Hour Political Party" of the Association for Humanistic Psychology [41] and the founding of a "transformational" political organization, the New World Alliance.