On Becoming A Person: A Therapist's View on Psychotherapy, Humanistic Psychology, and the Path to Personal Growth

by Carl R. Rogers

an elite group which is free, then this shows all too clearly that the great majority are only the slaves—no

become a continually developing and self-transcending process, in his behavior, his thinking, his knowledge?

the authority to establish certain qualities of interpersonal relationship.

But responsible personal choice, which is the most essential element in being a person, which is the core experience in psychotherapy, which exists prior to any scientific endeavor, is an equally prominent fact in our lives.

to deny the reality of the experience of responsible personal choice is as stultifying, as closed-minded,

the goals we select, the purposes we wish to follow, must always be outside of the science which achieves them.