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Carl Rogers

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Carl Rodgers psychology can only get compared to those of Abraham Maslow as his

humanistic perspective addresses the human person in totality. Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois

Rogers displayed enormous intellect which allowed him to skip certain grades in school.

However, just like many people that fail to realize their academic interest, Rogers gambled in his

career choice before settling in psychology. For instance, the Columbia University alumni started

majoring in agriculture and later transferred to religion before embarking on clinical psychology.

However, Carl's dedication in academics, later on, led him to coin theoretical human perspectives

that can only get explained through psychology (Masson, 2012). While great psychologists like

Maslow championed the theory of the hierarchy of needs, Carl focused on human growth in what

would later inform the psychological concept of growth and development. Carl concentrated on

the environment relationship with human growth and developed three fundamental concepts

regarding human wellness. Carl's concept of genuineness, acceptance, and empathy inform his

humanistic perspective theory.

Carl's humanistic perspective relates closely to the other works of psychologists like

Freud and Abraham in various concepts. The three unique qualities that Carl attributes to humans

matches the hierarchy of needs and the human mind theories by Maslow and Freud respectively

(Masson, 2012). Therefore, as a clinical psychologist and professor he created a framework for

clinical counseling to clients which appreciates the human perspective as issues of empathy,

respect and congruence must get prominence in such an exercise. In what could get construed to

as direct interference with Freud's concept of the human mind, the incongruence aspect of Carl's

psychology threatens the human ego which is responsible for determining the good and bad.

Rogers proposed that in a personal transaction, self-dignity must get restored for one to attain

congruence in dealing with the client during counseling therapy. Just like Abraham, Rogers
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contends that humans develop tendencies of attaining self-greatness in what relates to self-

actualization in the hierarchy of needs.

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References

Masson, J. M. (2012). Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of psychological

healing. Place of publication not identified: Untreed Reads.