A Way of Being

By: Carl R. Rogers

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Paperback | 7 September 1995

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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.

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At age 78, the champion of a "person-centered" therapy and lifestyle can perhaps be forgiven for this feverish (and essentially repetitive) collection of papers presented during the last decade or so: more recapitulation of his therapeutic approach ("realness," a "prizing" of the other, and "empathic" listening techniques); several retrospectives of his life and work; plus - still more non-therapeutic applications of his philosophy, this time in education and "the world of tomorrow." Rogers grew up friendless and (he claims) near-schizoid in a fundamentalist religious environment; it is to this, and his subsequent rescue by understanding friends in college, that he attributes his recognition of communication's importance. But most of his therapeutic coups here seem too easily won to be true: even at a two-day institute for 800 people (!) in Brazil; we are told, "persons were experiencing significant changes in themselves." The problems of education are just as neatly put away: we need to combine "experiential" with cognitive learning (assign them Buber, but let them rap about drugs, too); and it is even "entirely possible" to screen future teachers on the basis of their flair for Rogers' "growth-promoting" techniques. So, then, more pearls from the master for dyed-in-the-wool adherents - but no genuinely significant additions to the body of Rogers' work. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Introduction
Preface
Experiences in Communication	p. 5
My Philosophy of Interpersonal Relationships and How It Grew	p. 27
In Retrospect: Forty-Six Years	p. 46
Growing Old: Or Older and Growing?	p. 70
Do We Need "A" Reality?	p. 96
The Foundations of a Person-Centered Approach	p. 113
Empathic: An Unappreciated Way of Being	p. 137
Ellen West - And Loneliness	p. 164
Building Person-Centered Communities: The Implications for the Future	p. 181
Six Vignettes	p. 207
Some New Challenges to the Helping Professions	p. 235
Can Learning Encompass both Ideas and Feelings?	p. 263
Beyond the Watershed: And Where Now?	p. 292
Learnings in Large Groups: Their Implications for the Future	p. 316
The World of Tomorrow, and the Person of Tomorrow	p. 339
Appendix: A Chronological Bibliography of the Publications of Carl R. Rogers, 1930-1980	p. 357
Acknowledgments	p. 377
Index	p. 381
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