When carl rogers 12 years old, his family moved to a farm 30 miles away from Chicago, where he spent his youth. Due to strict family education and complicated housework, Carl became withdrawn, independent and self-disciplined.
19 19 was admitted to the university of Wisconsin, studied agriculture, and then turned to religion. 1924 received a bachelor's degree in literature from the University of Wisconsin. During this period, he was elected as the "World Christian Student Union" to study in Beijing for six months. He said that his new experience expanded his thinking, so he began to question some of his basic religious concepts.
After graduation, Carl married Hull regardless of his father's objection and settled in new york. He was admitted to new york United Theological Seminary, a well-known liberal religious research institution. Two years later, he transferred to Columbia University to study clinical psychology and educational psychology. 1928 received a master's degree in arts, and 193 1 received a doctorate in philosophy. He used to be the director of the Children's Social Issues Research Office of the Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse in Rochester, new york, and the director of 1940 Rochester Children's Guidance Center. 65438-0942, his book Counseling and Psychotherapy: A New Concept in Practice came out. 65438-0945 worked at the University of Chicago as the executive secretary of the consulting center. After leaving Chicago, he returned to his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, as a professor of psychology. 1946 ——1947 served as the president of the American Psychological Association. 195 1 year, he published the book "patient-centered therapy: its current implementation, significance and theory", and ten years later, "As a person: a therapist's perspective on psychotherapy" came out.
Rogers' outstanding contribution lies in the establishment of a humanistic psychotherapy system, which is second only to Freud's psychoanalysis in popularity. Rogers believes that everyone is born with a tendency to realize himself. When the internalized values of social values conflict with the original self, anxiety will arise. In order to cope with anxiety, people have to take psychological defense, which limits their free expression of thoughts and feelings and weakens their ability to realize themselves, thus making people's psychological development in an imperfect state. The fundamental principle of patient-centered therapy founded by Rogers is to artificially create an absolutely unconditional positive respect atmosphere, so that patients can repair their distorted and damaged self-realization potential in this ideal atmosphere and embark on the road of self-realization and self-improvement again.
main work
Counseling and psychotherapy (1942)
Visitor-centered therapy (195 1)
Patient-centered therapy: practice, significance and theory (1957),
Treatment, Personality and Interpersonal Relations Developed under the Patient-centered Framework (1959)
Being a Human: Psychotherapist's Psychiatric Viewpoint (196 1)
On human growth (196 1)
A way of being (1980)