Carl Rogers

Psychologist

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Popular and sensitive, with outstanding people skills. Externally focused, with real concern for how others think and feel. Usually dislike being alone. They see everything from the human angle, and dislike impersonal analysis. Very effective at managing people issues, and leading group discussions. Interested in serving others, and probably place the needs of others over their own needs.

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Carl Ransom Rogers was an American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

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Quotes by Carl Rogers

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

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