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Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was an psychologist and founder of the person-centered approach. For nearly forty years, Rogers presided over American psychotherapy, shaping its practice and changing many of its assumptions irrevocably. But Rogers left his mark on more than psychotherapy: he is one of the few psychotherapists whose writings enjoyed great popular success. In addition, the influence of his thought spans multiple disciplines, from the education, social work, and even politics.

Certain of the core principles of person-centered therapy, such as the crucial importance of empathy, close listening, and the therapeutic alliance, appear so obvious and ingrained in current counselor education and practice, that it is easy to forget that these ideas possess a genealogy, and seem so blindingly obvious now that it is difficult to credit that there was once a time when they were innovations. Nearly forty-years after his death, Rogers' ideas retain their place, not only as part of counseling theory and practice, but as part of the collective intuition of the discipline. He didn'

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Carl Rogers Psychologist Biography

Carl Rogers is widely regarded as one of the most eminent thinkers in psychology. He is best known for developing the psychotherapy method called client-centered therapy and for being one of the founders of humanistic psychology.

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Born: January 8, 1902, in Oak Park, Illinois
Died: February 4, 1987, in La Jolla, California
Known for: Client-centered therapy, fully functioning person, self-actualization

Early Life

Carl Ransom Rogers was born in 1902 in Oak Hill, Illinois. His father was a civil engineer, and his mother was a housewife; he was the fourth of six children. Rogers was a high achiever in school from an early age: He started reading before age 5 and was able to skip kindergarten and first grade.

When he was 12, his family moved from the suburbs to a rural farm area. He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in 1919 as an agriculture major. However, after attending a 1922 Christian conference in China, Rogers began to question his career choice. He later changed his major to History with plans to be

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Books by Carl R. Rogers

On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
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4.16 avg rating — 17,673 ratings — published 1961 — 98 editions

A Way of Being
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4.22 avg rating — 2,813 ratings — published 1980 — 43 editions

Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory
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4.21 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 1951 — 24 editions

The Carl Rogers Reader
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4.20 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 1989 — 14 editions

Freedom to Learn
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4.24 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions

Active Listening
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3.99 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions

Person to Person: The Problem of Being Human
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4.25 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1967 — 36 editions

On Encounter Groups
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3.94 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1969 — 18 editions

Becoming Partners: Marriage and Its Alternatives
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3.89 avg rating — 1