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Work InformationA Way of Being by Carl R. Rogers (1980)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Di questo piacevole libro di Rogers salvo tre saggi (quattro, anche l'ultimo, a dire il vero). Di respiro ampio, parla di massimi sistemi mantenendo l'umilta' dell'Eterno Ricercatore. Per una persona over-70 è ammirevole. A margine, i gruppi brasileiri da 800 persone devono essere stati qualcosa di irripetibile nella storia dell'umanità. A Way of Being was written in the early 1980s, near the end of Carl Rogers's career, and serves as a coda to his classic On Becoming a Person. More personal and philosophical than his earlier writings, it traces his professional and personal development and ends with a person-centered prophecy, in which he predicts a future changing in the direction of more humaneness. Now, fifteen years later, the psychiatrist and best-selling author Dr. Irvin Yalom revisits A Way of Being, offering a contemporary view of this remarkable work. no reviews | add a review
A profound and deeply personal collection of essays by renowned psychologist Carl Rogers The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement and father of client-centered therapy, based his life's work on his fundamental belief in the human potential for growth. A Way of Being was written in the early 1980s, near the end of Carl Rogers's career, and serves as a coda to his classic On Becoming a Person. More philosophical than his earlier writings, it traces his professional and personal development and ends with a prophetic call for a more humane future. No library descriptions found. |
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In my own experience, I had heard of Dr. Rogers before but had never read anything by him. Mostly I heard of him when other writers would reference his work, but I don't remember any particular cases.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit, yet it seemed lacking in some indescribable way. It isn't as though I had any expectations from this book since I had heard of the author through other sources, but I suppose I wanted something that would impress me a bit more. What I mean is that the ideas present in this book have become more accepted in recent times. Dr. Rogers worked against the grain for much of his career and put a lot of dogma about psychotherapy and psychology on its head. Now it just seems like treating a patient as an object would be anathema.
So then, either Dr. Rogers was far ahead of his time or I merely don't notice the mediocre practitioners that exist out there. ( )