On Becoming a Person

Rogers, Carl R.
Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, USA
Year Published:  1961
Pages:  419pp   ISBN:  0-395-08134-3
Resource Type:  Book

On the human potential for growth and creativity.

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Table of Contents

Introduction To the Reader


PART 1
Speaking Personally
Chapter 1 " This is Me"


PART II
HOW CAN I BE OF HELP
Chapter 2 Some Hypothese Regarding the Facilitation of Personal Growth

Chapter 3 The Characteristics of a Helping Relationship

Chapter 4 What We Know About Psychotherapy - Objectively and Subjectively


PART III

THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A PERSON

Chapter 5 Some of the Directions Evident in Therapy

Chapter 6 What It Means to Become a Person

Chapter 7 A Process Conception of Psychotherapy


PART IV

Chapter8 "To Be That Self Which One Truly Is":
ATherapist's View of Personal Goals

Chapter9 A Therapist's view of the Good Life: The Fully Functioning Person


PART V

GETTING AT THE FACTS:
THE PLACE OF RESEARCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

Chapter10 Persons or Science? A Philosophical Question

Chapter11 Personality Change in Psychotherapy

Chapter12 Client-Centered Therapy in its Context of Research


PART VI

WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR LIVING?

Chapter13 Personal Thoughts on Teaching and Learning

Chapter14 Significant Learning: In Therapy and in education

Chapter15 Student-Centered Teaching as Experienced by a Participant

Chapter16 The Implications of Client-Centered Therapy for Family Life

Chapter 17 Dealing with Breakdown in Communication - Interpersonal and Intergroup

Chapter18 A Tentative Formulation of a General Law of Interpersonal Relationships

Chapter19 Toward a Theory of Creativity


PART VII

THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES AND THE PERSON

Chapter20 The Growing Power of the Behavioral Sciences

Chapter21 The Place of the Individual in the New World of the Behavioral Sciences

Appendix A Chronological Bibliography of the publications of Carl R. Rogers. 1930-1960.


Acknowledgments

Index
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