Carl R. Rogers

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born

January 08, 1902 in The United States

died

February 04, 1987

gender

male

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http://www.mythosandlogos.com/Rogers.html

genre

Health, Mind & Body, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality

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"Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me." -Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person

DEVELOPED THEORIES - THERAPIES
Person-Centered; Humanistic; Client-Centered; Student-Centered

TIMELINE
1902 - Carl Rogers was born in Oak Park, Illinois.
1919 - Enrolled at University of Wisconsin.
1924 - Graduated from University of Wisconsin and enrolled at Union Theological Seminary.
1926 - Transferred to Columbia.
1931- Earned Ph.D. from Columbia.
1940 - Began teaching at University of...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 1,921 ratings · 95 reviews · 37 distinct works

	On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl R. Rogers, Peter D. Kramer (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 1,426 ratings — published 1961 — 17 editions	My rating:
	A Way of Being by Carl R. Rogers, Arvin Yalom (Adapted by), Irvin D. Yalom (Introduction) 4.12 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1980 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Carl Rogers Reader by Carl R. Rogers (Editor), Valerie Land Henderson (Editor) 4.16 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Client Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications And Theory by Carl R. Rogers, Thomas Gordon, Nicholas Hobbs 4.08 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1951 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Freedom to Learn by Carl R. Rogers, H. Jerome Freiberg 4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Person to Person: The Problem of Being Human by Carl R. Rogers, Barry Stevens 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	On Encounter Groups 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	On Personal Power: Inner Strength & Its Revolutionary Impact 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1977 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Dialog on the Control of Human Behavior by Carl R. Rogers, B.F. Skinner 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dialogues by Carl R. Rogers, Howard Kirschenbaum, Valerie L. Henderson (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
― Carl R. Rogers

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“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
― Carl R. Rogers

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“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
― Carl R. Rogers

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