Personal Construct Theory: My View on Psychotherapy: My View on Psychotherapy

Author: Rogers
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This is a book written for "intelligent ordinary people." In the 1950s, after gaining fame, Rogers traveled to various places to give speeches. This book is primarily compiled based on these speeches and unpublished articles, reflecting Rogers' core ideas. It includes dialogues between Rogers and diverse groups, responses to people's kind inquiries and aggressive challenges, covering topics such as Rogers' personal background and life experiences, the essence and elements of helpful interpersonal relationships, particularly therapeutic relationships, the direction and process of personal formation, discussions on life philosophy, research into psychotherapy, and the application implications of Rogerian client-centered therapy in fields such as school education, family life, corporate communication, and even international relations. Rogers' voice—full of love and passion, confident yet earnest—connects multiple papers in On Becoming a Person into a cohesive whole. The person we are speaking with is exceptionally knowledgeable and very patient, listening carefully to others as well as to himself. This focused listening promotes personal growth and also helps us contemplate this grand theoretical question: What does it truly mean to become a person?