(P/B) ON BECOMING A PERSON

Παρουσίαση

In this book one of America's most distinguished psychologists describes his experiences in helping people to discover the path to personal growth through an understanding of their own limitations and potential. What is personal growth? Under what conditions is it possible? How can one person help another? What is creativity, and how can it be fostered? These are some of the issues raised, which challenge many concepts of traditional psychology.
Contemporary psychology derives largely from the experimental laboratory, or from Freudian theory. It is preoccupied with minute aspects of animal and human behaviour, or with the mentally ill. But there are rebels, of whom the author counts himself as one, along with Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow and Rollo May, who feel that psychology and psychiatry should be aiming higher, and be more concerned with growth and potentiality in man. The interest of such a psychology is in the production of harmoniously mature individuals, given that we all have qualities and possibilities infinitely capable of development. Successful development makes us more flexible in relationships, more creative, and less open to suggestion and control.
This book, philosophical and provocative, summarizes Dr Rogers' experience.Non-technical in its language, it is not only for psychologists and psychiatrists, but for teachers and counsellors, religious and social workers, labour-management specialists and anyone interested in 'becoming'. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction To the Reader
PART I SPEAKING PERSONALLY
Chapter 1 "This is Me"
PART II How CAN I BE OF HELP?
Chapter 2 Some Hypotheses Regarding the Facilitation of Personal Growth
Chapter 3 The Characteristics of a Helping Relationship
Chapter 4 What We Know About Psychotherapy - Objectively and Subjectively
PART III THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A PERSON
Chapter 5 Some of the Directions Evident in Therapy
Chapter 6 What It Means to Become a Person
Chapter 7 A Process Conception of Psychotherapy
PART IV A PHILOSOPHY OF PERSONS
Chapter 8 "To Be That Self Which One Truly Is": A Therapist's View of Personal Goals
Chapter 9 A Therapist's View of the Good Life: The Fully Functioning Person
PART V GETTING AT THE FACTS: THE PLACE OF RESEARCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Chapter 10 Persons or Science? A Philosophical Question
Chapter 11 Personality Change in Psychotherapy
Chapter 12 Client-Centered Therapy in its Context of Research
PART VI WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR LIVING?
Chapter 13 Personal Thoughts on Teaching and Learning
Chapter 14 Significant Learning: In Therapy and in Education
Chapter 15 Student-Centered Teaching as Experienced by a Participant
Chapter 16 The Implications of Client-centered Therapy for Family Life
Chapter 17 Dealing with Breakdowns in Communication - Interpersonal and Intergroup
Chapter 18 A Tentative Formulation of a General Law of Interpersonal Relationships
Chapter 19 Toward a Theory of Creativity
PART VII THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES AND THE PERSON
Chapter 20 The Growing Power of the Behavioral Sciences
Chapter 21 The Place of the Individual in the New World of the Behavioral Sciences
Appendix A Chronological Bibliography of the publications of Carl R. Rogers. 1930-1960.
Acknowledgments
Index