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    On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
    On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
    On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
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    On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

    Written by Carl R Rogers and Peter D. Kramer, MD

    Narrated by Joe Hempel

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    About this audiobook

    The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of "client-centered therapy." His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten.

    With a new introduction by Peter Kramer, this landmark book is a classic in its field and a must-listen for anyone interested in clinical psychology or personal growth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 21, 2017
    ISBN9781541481947
    On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

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    • 4/5
      This book is quite possibly the best book that I have read as a part of my graduate school experience thus far.

      This is the third theory book that I have read (Skinner, Jung) and Rogers is the most easy to get along with and understand. Rogers is humble, and every step of the way takes you along his journey to how he developed person centered therapy. At no point does he insist that his theory is the right one, or the only, but he says that his theory is what he has developed from his own experiences.

      I would definitely recommend!!
    • 5/5
      Although this isn't saying much by itself in my opinion, Rogers is certainly better than Freud, (and Skinner seems pretty heartless and mechanical too)-- more human, less arrogant and hung-up on himself......Also, although again this isn't saying much in itself, he writes better prose than Jung; it is nice to read someone who can write readable English.....And a bright humanist faith illuminates the work throughout. .....................Now, I suppose that the most relevant criticism of his thought would be from the tension between authenticity-- *"In my relationships with persons I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to act as though I were something I am not*. It does not help to act calm and pleasant when actually I am angry and critical.... I have not found it to be helpful or effective in my relationships with other people to maintain a façade; to act in one way on the surface when I am experiencing something quite different underneath."-- and unconditional positive regard for all persons. Probably much of the same criticism and ill feeling directed at Carl Rogers has also been directed at Jane Bennet and all like her-- "Do clear *them* too, or we shall be obliged to think ill of somebody", her younger sister sneered at her. In other words, if you think well of *everyone*, then you must just not be very serious at all. And perhaps the criticism is not without some teeth. If we think well of Rogers, or Jane, then we do aspire to love all people, to be sincere and even pacifistic in nature towards everyone. But then our ire is naturally and automatically aroused when we meet the rogue and the fighter, (the Wickham), and then it seems for a time difficult if not impossible to write a story without villains-- as if we could expel someone from the family of humanity as though from a school.... as though we could write a story in which only some of the characters are humans, and the rest are ogres and trolls. But if we like how we are treated by the Rogerses and the Janes of the world, then perhaps there is something to how they think. Often what Rogers writes does not appear usually to be exceptional to me, but he is reasonable, and his very reasonableness can be charming. Likewise, there is nothing new about the idea that love is the answer, but if that is true, then that is more than enough to recommend it. It's easy enough to roll off Rogers' Big Three Qualifications for good therapy: authenticity, unconditional positive regard, and empathy-- which I suppose is a sort of love, although clearly of a certain kind, and not the only kind-- but clearly alot of thought went into the writing of these rather readable words. .... I wouldn't say that it is merely a matter of behavior, although behavior is the fruit, but there is more than simply acting as if you really did have an unconditional positive regard for someone if you really don't, and simply hoping as though the salutary effects of positive action would change your feelings.... You could do worse than this, but simply faking positive feelings would violate the sense of genuineness that we all desire to receive, and so ought to strive to provide.{Better than just hoping is to have a real genuine, shining humanist faith, that there really is a way to have unconditional positive regard for all those whom you meet.... that there really is a way to have a story without villains....} But if you can really have empathy for the person-- if you can feel about them the way that you might feel about yourself, despite all the differences.... if you can love that other person, the way that Jane loved Darcy when he seemed like he was a fool at best, by really feeling for him.... and not just loving Charles because they were both such easily-lovable people..... The thing is, that despite the rather utilitarian prose of Rogers, he is really writing about love. (9/10)