On Becoming a Person

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Abraham Samuel Maslow recognizes the functioning of a person in one's own self, but Rogers highlights the need for the environment. This creativity and adaptation would not make any substantial changes in the teacher's personality but allows him to adapt to the situation in a creative manner.

If that sounds like something every psychotherapist ever has said to you at least a couple of times, consider it Rogers’ fault. It’s also probably one of the very first psychology bestsellers: when it appeared in 1961 – Peter D. Registered address: Unit 5, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom. Carl Rogers is widely credited as one of the founders of the humanist (client-centered approach) to psychology. But responsible personal choice, which is the most essential element in being a person, which is the core experience in psychotherapy, which exists prior to any scientific endeavor, is an equally prominent fact in our lives.I find I am at my best when I can let the flow of my experience carry me, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward goals of which I am but dimly aware. Carl Rogers noted that while the problems people present during psychotherapy “run the gamut of life’s experiences”––troubles with school, or spouse, or employer, or with one’s own uncontrollable or bizarre behavior, or with one’s frightening feelings––”there is perhaps only one problem. Rogers was a supporter of self-actualization, which means every person has the ability to find the best solutions for himself and the ability to make appropriate modifications in his everyday life. The humanistic psychologist Rogers, was a supporter of the founder of positive psychology, Abraham Maslow's humanistic theory of personality.

It creates a safe space for the client to explore their thoughts and emotions without fear of judgment or rejection. Empathic understanding means that the counselor makes every effort to see things from a client’s internal, experience-based perspective, rather than from an external, judgment-based point of view.

One of Carl Rogers best-known books, On Becoming A Person is, arguably, one of the most important volumes on human psychology and psychotherapy ever written.