The way I understand it, Client Centered Therapy is about providing a warm, accepting echo chamber to the client. One might say that there is less self-consciousness and more self…That the self functions smoothly in experience, rather than being an object of introspection.

It took me a while to get through, not because I found it difficult or boring, but because it was thought-provoking and challenging. This is what eventually leads to the easing of tensions that grew from inconsistencies in experience and self-concept. It would only stand to reason that such familiarity with basic considerations of life would go hand in hand with proposing fundamental roots of human behavior and introspection as Rogers attempts to do in this publication. What I missed in this book was a more elaborate discussion on the actual techniques of clarification, reflection, restatement, resonance that are used in therapy. He was cautious to submit his model of therapy to the scientific method and, when available, he defended his ideas with academic studies.It's probably going to be hard to formulate my thoughts on this material in a consistent and progressive manner. I read Roger's CCT in such a context, my second exposure to him, the first having been in an earlier EdPsych class. Inner-external conflicts are when an individual's internal representation of himself and the world is in conflict with his experience of the world.

This is the original bible for person centred therapists where the basis for this type of therapy is founded. From this disintegration, the client comes to build a new model of the world that encapsulates contradictory experiences without conflict. I also found the emphasis placed on the importance of the counselor having a genuine attitude of acceptance and empathy, as well as being comitted to achieving a high level of personal awareness and growth to be a refreshing reminder. Something many therapeutic school often attribute as important, but not always take as seriously as Rogers and his contemporaries themselves. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.All in all I feel like this book helped me to grow as a counselor and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is seeking a better understanding of client-centered therapy. I am glad that I persevered and finished it and I will be reading more of his work, but perhaps in smaller chunks at a time. De inhoud van het boek vond ik fantastisch de leesbaarheid wat minder vanwege academisch taalgebruik en langdradigheid. An example would be when someone has convinced himself of being a genius, yet fails to get decent grades at school.

Early on in the preface the reader is faced with Rogers' philosophical roots when he refers to himself as 'a midwife to a new personality.

This is not to assume that problems do not occur everywhere or that there aren't drawbacks inherent in allowing social guidelines to dictate your life, but that with such exaggerated freedom comes a press for individual responsibility and lack of clarity of where one might guide themselves. If you are so inclined to “really” read the book (sorry for my transference in this comment, it just appears that some of the reviewers failed to read the book, or grasp its concepts), I would highly suggest that you take your time and understand the last chapter, “A Theory of Personality and Behavior,” as the culmination, or “proof” if you will, about the fundamental soundness of the client-centered approach to counseling. Client-Centred Therapy crystallises the great progress that has been made in the development the techniques and basic philogopy of counselling. While I had liked his Freedom to Learn, I found CCT to be very boring after the first sections on at least two accounts. Many times I've had to put the book down to work through a chain of thought, to reflect upon my own values and ways of being (forgive the in-reference).