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Title: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers, Peter D. Kramer ISBN: 0-395-75531-X Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 07 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (14 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: we're better off without Carl . . .
Comment: I am sorry, but my experience as a client in the poorly thought out "client-centered therapy" that a delirious soul like Carl Rogers dreamed up to make himself sound good at parties, and cash in on "humanitarianism," convinces me that Rogerian therapy may resolve some issues, but is very poor when it comes to helping both client and therapist face other very significant issues.
Hate to sound arrogant, but the individual isn't just an individual, and his problems aren't always within him/herself. We are each the result of a variety of forces, and if a client isn't encouraged to work on a positive social/community image for themselves, as well as possibly to modify the kind of company he/she keeps, then they are headed for trouble.
Rogers apparently could care less about the individual's need to cultivate their image/persona within the community, that they might come to have real respect and functionability in that community, and stop enduring the prospect of being overlooked for things they need, or even the prospect of harassment and intimidation, real or potential.
In short, Rogerian therapy may help resolve some issues, as it does encourage, in the long run, the client to speak and 'vent' themselves. This in itself, within the therapeutic situaion, can be helpful, and WILL resolve problems. However, unless the individual gets from therapy a firm understanding of their place in the world, and how they ought to live and act in it, there is great danger of any positive changes being reversed, or of any potential problems being ignored, and springing detrimentally into view. Such a result can cripple the positive effects of therapy for years, depending on the individual. I ought to know: I went through nearly 200 hours of 'Rogerian' style therapy, and walked into a heck of alot of personal trouble as an eventual result.
The well-meaning therapists who sucker up to the Rogerian mystique, eventually blunder. They speak little to their clients. The result of this approach, is that real difficulties can, even in the long run, remain unexplored. Read Erik Erikson "Insight and Responsibility," etc., Karen Horney's six or seven books, and Jung's "Two Essays on Analytical Psychology" for a better orientation on these matters.
I seriously doubt, ultimately, that the five-star reviews here presented are from people who ever needed even fairly serious outpatient therapy. If they ever did, they might have some serious doubts about whatever Rogerian-quality therapy they may have endured.
In short, there's nothing wrong with knowing about Rogerian therapy. But find out what psychotherapy is REALLY all about.
In the meantime, having Roger's book on your shelf might help your liberal friends feel more comfortable, anyway ( as a psychiatrist I knew who kept a visible copy of "Toxic Psychiatry" in his office, just so his clients would feel more comfortable that he was open-minded in his perspectives.)
Rogerian therapy capitalizes on the need for people not to take therapy too seriously, at first. Ultimately, however, a Rogerian client can too easily suffer from what amounts to a well-meaning, but ignorant, neglect from the 'Rogerian' therapist they may come to rely on.
Rating: 4
Summary: Psychophilosophy
Comment: Rogers writes this book on what seems to be an unsure basis about his theories on human psychology which i find to be very accurate, albeit ignored theories. From Socrates, Descartes, and Sartes his theories, though accidental, seem to come from. The evolution of the human being, the mystique of free will, and the pattern of thought are all described in this book
Rating: 5
Summary: a proccess of self discovery....
Comment: This book is solid, allowing the reader to have a thorough review of him or herself. However, it is not a "self test" book while contemporary tests in it. It explains the concept of becoming a person like how a car works (metaphorically speaking). Highly recommended by anyone with a strong interest in psychology.
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Title: A Way of Being by Carl Rogers ISBN: 0395755301 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 07 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Carl Rogers Reader by Carl Rogers ISBN: 0395483573 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 16 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl ISBN: 0671023373 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology by Rollo May, May Rollo ISBN: 0393312402 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Gift of Therapy : An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom ISBN: 0060938110 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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