A psychologist that I admire...

Good afternoon everyone!, today I'm going to write about

Carl Rogers

He was born on January, 8th, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois and died on February, 4th, 1987 in San Diego, California. Rogers, was an American psychologist known by the alternative method that he proposed, "The Client-Centered Therapy" and because he was one of the founders of humanistic psychology.

Carl Rogers worked in academia holding positions at University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago and Ohio State University. At the same time, he was developing his new proposition in clinical psychology, which he initially named "Nondirective Therapy", then it passed to be known as "Client-Centered Therapy".

This innovative therapy, consists in a person who is a facilitator rather than a director of the counseling, and he or she guides the clients (-patients-, but Rogers dislike to use that term, because he wanted to be closer to the other person in the therapy, establishing a mutual confidence between therapist and client) to their self-actualization. So this new form of therapy in psychology brought the client an active participant role, targeted a new approach to psychology, "the existential phenomenology", also improved the human potential and for that reason, the main constructs for Rogers were self-actualization, unconditional positive regard, development of the self, congruence and the fully-functioning person.

Having said all that, I admire Carl Rogers, because I really like the method that he proposed and it's the idea that I have when I think on a psychological therapy, so if I would work in clinical area, I would like to do that kind of therapy. Also I like the freedom, the human potential belief and the confidence that Rogers brings us, related to his view of life, it's something absolutely idealistic and I love that.

Today I will publish 2 posts, you should read them, see you ;)!