01 The person-centered approach (Carl Rogers): Introduction / incongruence theory

Link to Carl Rogers’ session with Gloria:

For introductory summaries of the person-centered approach, see:
- beginning of the “Gloria video” (Carl Rogers presenting his approach)
- Kirschenbaum & Henderson (1989): Carl Rogers: Dialogues.
Chapter 2: “Client-centered therapy” (written by Carl Rogers)
- Carl Rogers (1980): A way of being.
Chapter “Foundations of a person-centered approach”

For a description of the incongruence theory (“The Rogerian view of psychological problems”):
- Kirschenbaum & Henderson (1989): Carl Rogers: Dialogues.
Chapter 2: “Client-centered therapy” (written by Carl Rogers), “the Theory of the Therapeutic Process”.

For a description of the actualizing tendency:
- Carl Rogers (1951): Client-centered therapy: it’s current practice, implications, and theory.
Chapter 11: “A theory of personality and behavior”, proposition 4


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