Doris Part II

The Self , Person-Centered , or Ego-Integrated Theory

A humanistic theorist , Carl Rogers is the chief exponent of this theory . Rogers is a therapist who has devoted most of his career to the study and treatment of disturbed people (Fehr , l983 . The self-theory consists of positive self-regard , which refers to attitudes of warmth respect , liking , and acceptance on the part of others toward the self and similar attitudes with regard to one 's own experience independent of social transactions with others . What Rogers wants to say is that every healthy individual needs both types

of regard , social and personal , that the individual cannot be normal and cannot function adequately if he does not experience regard for others as well as a realistic sense of his own worth (Lamberth , l980 . He describes the tendency of the fully functioning individual to live in harmony with others because of the rewarding character of reciprocal positive regard that the most important motivational force of all mankind is the tendency to actualize (Fehr , l983 . The actualizing tendency is inherent in every creature to strive to make the best of its existence . It is the very nature of all living things to desire and do the very best they can

A person by nature is also sociable , thus , culture and society is created in the course of people 's actualization that can become a force to serve a person to survive and at the same time harm or even destroy him . Society leads a person away from the...