On Becoming a Person
The 1961 papers where client-centred therapy began, arguing that people change when met with unconditional regard rather than diagnosis. Includes his lecture on listening.
Rogers’s 1961 gathering of papers on client-centred therapy, and the origin of the idea that people change when they are met with unconditional regard rather than diagnosis. The chapter on why real listening is so rare, written for a Cold War communications conference, is the one people keep returning to.
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Maria Popova
In 1951, as the Cold War was menacing the world with mutually assured destruction, the pioneering psychologist Carl R. Rogers (January 8, 1902–February 4, 1987) addressed the Centennial Conference on Communications at Northwestern University with a revelation of a talk plainly titled “Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation,” later included in his classic On Becoming a Person (public library) — an inquiry into the crux of mutual misunderstanding and the remedy for it, as applicable to love as it is to war, revealing the same psychological forces coursing beneath the bloodiest conflict between groups and the subtlest discord in our intimate relationships.
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