Counseling

Name

Instructor 's Name

Course

Date

`On becoming a Person`

Carol Rogers

Book review

Introduction

Carol Rogers was an American psychologist and one among the founders of the Humanist approach to psychology . He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on national intergroup conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland . His theories on Self-concept , development of personality , the good life and the fully functioning person are popular even among contemporary psychologists . They have found wide applications in counselling

The Self-Concept

Individuals

exist in a continually changing world which they experience with themselves at the centre .They react to the field experienced based on perceptions

This field of perception is reality for the individual . A portion of the perception field generally becomes differentiated as self . During interaction with the environment and with others , the structure of the self is formed as an organised , fluid but consistent pattern of perceptions . The concept of "I " or the "me " if formed along with values to these concepts . Behavior adopted by the organism is consistent with the concept of self

Experiences inconsistent with the organization of the structure of the self are perceived as a threat . The more these perceptions are the more rigidly the self structure is organized to maintain itself . Carol Rogers described principles rather than stages in the development of a person The development of a self concept is the progress from an undifferentiated self to being fully differentiated

The Good Life and the Fully Functioning Person

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