On Becoming a Person

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Rogers, Carl (1989). The Carl Rogers Reader. Google Books: Houghton Mifflin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-395-48357-2. 1985 the rust peace workshop.

Rogers, C.R. (1957). The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 21: 95-103. The values attached to experiences, and the values that are a part of the self-structure, in some instances, are values experienced directly by the organism, and in some instances are values introjected or taken over from others, but perceived in distorted fashion, as if they had been experienced directly. Ismail NAH, Tekke M. Rediscovering Roger's self theory and personality. J Educ Health Community Psychol. 2015;4(3):28-36. a b Thorne, Brian, with Sanders, Pete (2012). Carl Rogers. SAGE Publications, 3rd ed., pp. 119–120. ISBN 978-1-4462-5223-9. People will not speak about feelings openly, and tend to blame others for causing their pain, rather than take responsibility for themselves: ‘If only my friend would stop doing that, I’d feel better.’Rogers saw personality and change as differences in the ways that experiences were apprehended. Personality and Change are both processes; while other therapies claimed that personality is the structure which must be restructured (or that personality is the product of learning which can be unlearned or reprogrammed), Rogers saw personality and change as differences in the ways that experiences were comprehended and understood within the organism. Person centred therapy sees personality and change as separate processes (Sanders, 2006). if you are willing to enter his private world and see the way life appears to him, without any attempt to make evaluative judgments, you run the risk of being changed yourself.”

Tudor and Worrell (2006) assert Roger’s descriptive language of Change in his literature straddles both a qualitative and quantitative line which reads as both objective and subjective. For example, he describes the client’s expression based on what he can see (objective) but what he is referring to is the change the individual experiences subjectively. For example, “Reaching” or “achieving” and “stage” may be a little misleading as terms also as they can imply this sense of evaluation, i.e. that it’s “better” to be at a certain way or stage.In the development of the self-concept, he saw conditional and unconditional positive regard as key. Those raised in an environment of unconditional positive regard have the opportunity to fully actualize themselves. Those raised in an environment of conditional positive regard feel worthy only if they match conditions (what Rogers describes as conditions of worth) that others have laid down for them. The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy—man’s tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities.” To improve your relationships and yourself, learn conflict resolution skills.These skills include being a good listener, understanding the other side when you are in conflict, and anger management techniques. Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy. Rogers is widely considered one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1956. Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me. Carl Rogers

Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1956, APA); Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychology as a Professional Practice (1972, APA); 1964 Humanist of the Year ( American Humanist Association) In some instances, behavior may be brought about by organic experiences and needs that have not been symbolized. Such behavior may be inconsistent with the structure of the self, but in such instances the individual does not "own" the behavior. For Clarification, Fluidity itself can be defined as a quality of the organism, an expression for this organism’s tendency to actualise. The key characteristics of which is the experience of Immediacy; feeling and cognition interpenetrate one another, self is subjectively present in the experience. That we feel and think simultaneously, this is stated to have an integrative perspective of oneself and one’s feelings as they arise in the present (Rogers, 1961; Sanders, 2006). Kirschenbaum, Howard (1979). On Becoming Carl Rogers. Delacorte Press. pp.92–93. ISBN 978-0-440-06707-8.When I am thus able to be in process, it is clear that there can be no closed system of beliefs, no unchanging set of principles which I hold. Life is guided by a changing understanding of and interpretation of my experience. It is always in process of becoming.” Under certain conditions, involving primarily complete absence of threat to the self structure, experiences inconsistent with it may be perceived and examined, and the structure of self revised to assimilate and include such experiences. Rogers was intelligent and could read well before kindergarten. Following an education in a strict religious and ethical environment as an altar boy at the vicarage of Jimpley, he became rather isolated, independent and disciplined, and acquired knowledge and an appreciation for the scientific method in a practical world. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a member of the fraternity Alpha Kappa Lambda, his first career choice was agriculture, followed by history and then religion.