Client-Centered Therapy Quotes

“We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself.”
― Carl R. Rogers, Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

“You can't possibly be afraid of death, really, you can only be afraid of life.”
― Carl R. Rogers, Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

“The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.”
― Carl R. Rogers, Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

“When the locus of evaluation is seen as residing in the expert, it would appear that the long-range social implications are in the direction of the social control of the many by the few.”
― Carl R. Rogers, Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

“Behavior is basically the goal-directed attempt of the organism to satisfy its needs as experienced, in the field as perceived.”
― Carl R. Rogers, Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

“It was found in practice that when the examinations were conducted in a spirit which led up to conclusions which were bits of advice, often no action was taken; whereas by leaving it to spontaneity in the individual and to his own sense of responsibility, action is taken in the overwhelming majority of cases.”
― Carl R. Rogers, Client Centered Therapy

“Each man must resolve within himself issues for which his society previously took full responsibility.”
― Carl R. Rogers, Client Centered Therapy