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 six children to Walter and Julia (Cushing) Rogers....

1902–1987 AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, PROFESSOR COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Ph.D., 1931 Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as...

Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. Rogers is considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was...

One of the most important components of the modern university curriculum is the concept of "experiential learning." While it is likely that experienced geoscience educators might take this phrase as yet another example of reprocessed educational jargon, its wide-spread application makes it very much...

Carl Ransom Rogers, 85, a world leader in psychotherapy and psychological research, died of cardiac arrest Feb. 4 at a hospital in San Diego. Dr. Rogers was known as the founder of "humanistic therapy," which is based on the belief that patients can...

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.The cause of death was kidney and heart failure, The New York Times reported on...

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 his peers as more influential than Sigmund Freud.Ellis, who helped establish cognitive behavior...

In the following essay, Thorne outlines major arguments against Rogers's methodology.

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.

In the following essay, Pounds presents a critique of the Rogerian rhetoric of love using Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of killing.