Rogers, Carl Ransom
1902–1987
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, PROFESSOR COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Ph.D., 1931
Brief Overview
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my ow...
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Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987) was an American psychotherapist who originated person-centered, non-directive counseling.Carl Rogers was born on January 8, 1902, in Oak Park, Illinois, the fourth of si...
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In the following interview, Rogers and Harrington discuss group therapy methods, and Rogers criticizes modern psychology for ignoring patients' personal needs.
[Hall]: Shall we talk about gr...
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In the following essay, Mader argues against the trend in rhetoric study that positioned Rogers as an Aristotelian rhetorician while ignoring the real goals of his methodology.
Recent college compo...
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In the following essay, Baumlin explores the role of Rogerian group therapy in persuasive argument.
Ideas can shape us, change us, and a change in beliefs enacts a change in self: witness, in an ex...
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In the following essay, Pounds presents a critique of the Rogerian rhetoric of love using Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of killing.
But there is one aspect of the rhetorical tradition that so far...
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In the following essay, Lassner examines the responses of female writing students to Rogerian persuasive techniques.
When Rogerian argument was introduced in the 1970s, it was hailed as a heuristic...
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In the following essay, Thorne outlines major arguments against Rogers's methodology.
Criticisms
Rogers had his critics from the very beginning and they have not grown less vociferous with t...
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In the following essay, Sackett argues that the focus of Rogerian theory on empathetic understanding of the other can be successfully applied to the study of literature.
The Genesis of Literary Work...
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Albert Ellis, founder of a renowned psychotherapy institute who is considered by many to be among the most influential figures in modern psychology, died Tuesday, the institute announced. He was 93...
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He came to psychology almost by happenstance, after friends began turning to him for guidance. But Albert Ellis would become one of the most important figures in modern psychology, once ranked by h...
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Robert BernsteinAUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Dr. Robert Bernstein, an Army physician who served as commander of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Texas Commissioner of Health, died Monday. He was 87....
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