On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Karl Dietz <karl.dz@gmail.com> wrote:
> dear all,
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> es folgt eine längere mail zu einem genie.
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> en avant.
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wohin auch sonst :)
> nice day
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> k
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>
>>>> Datum: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:47:39 +0200
>>>> Betreff: [W2] Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987)
>>>>
>>>> Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987)
>>>>
>>>> Professor für Psychologie, Lehrtätigkeit an der Universität Chicago
>>>> und Forschung am Center for Studies of the Person in La Jolla,
>>>> Kalifornien.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * Nondirective," "client-centered," and "person-centered." are the
>>>> terms
>>>> Rogers used successively, at different points in his career, for his
>>>> method. This method involves removing obstacles so the client
>>>> can move
>>>> forward, freeing him or her for normal growth and development. It
>>>> emphasizes being fully present with the client and helping the
>>>> latter
>>>> truly feel his or her own feelings, desires, etc.. Being
>>>> "nondirective" lets the client deal with what he or she considers
>>>> important, at his or her own pace.
>>>>
>>>> * Avoidance of Argument. Rogers was willing state his own position
>>>> clearly, and hear you out and listen to your position carefully. He
>>>> asked, "Can we learn from each other?" He was not interested in
>>>> winning arguments.
>>>>
>>>> * Case histories. Rogers was the first person to record and publish
>>>> complete cases of psychotherapy.
>>>>
>>>> * Congruence. Open, authentic, communication in which the way I
>>>> present
>>>> myself to the world matches what I think and feel at a deeper
>>>> level.
>>>> (Incongruence is similar to Jung's persona, or wearing a mask." It
>>>> may
>>>> be conscious deception or unconscious self-deception.) Rogers
>>>> writes,
>>>> "I have found, in my relations with persons, that in the long run it
>>>> does not help to pretend to be something I am not."
>>>>
>>>> * Avoidance of Control; Responsibility for self. The person-centered
>>>> therapist consciously avoids control over, or decision-making, for
>>>> the
>>>> client, so that the client becomes responsible for himself or
>>>> herself.
>>>> This changes the power relationship between therapist and client
>>>> by
>>>> putting the control over decision-making, as well as the
>>>> responsibility for decisions, in the hands of the client.
>>>>
>>>> * Curiosity. Rogers was deeply curious. He wanted to really
>>>> sense, hear,
>>>> feel what life was like for the other person. He had a
>>>> phenomenological attitude.
>>>>
>>>> * Education. Rogers views our schools as generally rigid,
>>>> bureaucratic
>>>> institutions which are resistant to change. Applied to education,
>>>> his
>>>> approach becomes "student-centered learning" in which the
>>>> students are
>>>> trusted to participate in developing and to take charge of their own
>>>> learning agendas. The most difficult thing in teaching is to let
>>>> learn.
>>>>
>>>> * Empathic understanding: to try to take in and accept a client's
>>>> perceptions and feelings as if they were your own, but without
>>>> losing
>>>> your boundary/sense of selve.
>>>>
>>>> * The facts are always friendly. If new evidence shows that our
>>>> opinions, views, and hypotheses are mistaken, it leads us closer
>>>> to
>>>> what is true. This is learning, and though sometimes painful, it
>>>> leads
>>>> to a jore accurate way of seeing life.
>>>>
>>>> * Feelings. "A vitally important part of therapy is for the person to
>>>> learn to recognize and express his feelings as his own feelings,
>>>> not
>>>> as a fact about another person." For example, "I feel annoyed by
>>>> what
>>>> you are doing," rather than, "What you are doing is all wrong."
>>>>
>>>> * The Fully-Functioning Person. Rogers' term for an "ideal
>>>> personality."
>>>> A person who is open to her own experience, lives in the moment
>>>> in an
>>>> existential fashion, and is fully connected to her own stream of
>>>> consciousness, which is constantly changing. She trusts her
>>>> organism
>>>> and does what "feels right" in a situation. To be "fully functioning"
>>>> is not a finished state, but a direction we can be moving in.
>>>>
>>>> * Human nature. Rogers believed that at a basic level, human
>>>> beings are
>>>> good and trustworthy. The more fully-functioning a person is, the
>>>> more
>>>> that basic nature will be evidence.
>>>>
>>>> * Inner Freedom. This involves freedom from such things as threat,
>>>> and
>>>> freedom to choose and be.
>>>>
>>>> * Judgment, evaluation, approval or disapproval of another person.
>>>> "This
>>>> tendency to react to any emotionally meaningful statement by
>>>> forming
>>>> an evaluation of it from our own point of view is the major barrier to
>>>> interpersonal communication."
>>>>
>>>> * Learning. Significant learning is self-initiated, it has a quality of
>>>> personal involvement, and it is evaluated by the learner.
>>>> Meaningful learning is self-directed, experiential, and uses both
>>>> intellectual and intuitive processes.
>>>>
>>>> * Listening. As a person learns to listen to himself he becomes
>>>> more
>>>> accepting of himself.
>>>>
>>>> * Living in the moment. If I say, "I am this," or "I am that," it is
>>>> already past. For example, as soon as I can say, "I'm being
>>>> defensive," that itself changes things.
>>>>
>>>> * Organismic values. Basic positive human and social values that
>>>> appear
>>>> to be common to all people at a deep level. These tend to
>>>> emerge as a
>>>> person becomes more open to his or her deep experience.
>>>>
>>>> * Personal growth. Rogers' clients tend to move away from
>>>> facades, away
>>>> from "oughts," and away from pleasing others as a goal in itself.
>>>> Then
>>>> tend to move toward being real, toward self-direction, and toward
>>>> positively valuing oneself and one's own feelings. Then learn to
>>>> prefer the excitement of being a process to being something fixed and
>>>> static. They come to value an openness to inner and outer
>>>> experiences, sensitivity-to and acceptance-of others as they are, and
>>>> develop greater abilityachieve close relationships.
>>>>
>>>> * Politics of relationships and therapy. How persons maneuver or
>>>> position themselves for power and control within relationships, both
>>>> personal and therapeutic.
>>>>
>>>> * Politics in a broader sense. Applying Rogers' perspective, Assemblyman
>>>> John Vasconcellos says, "The basic struggle in politics is between
>>>> those who think people should be free to control their own destiny,
>>>> and those who think everyone should be controlled."
>>>>
>>>> * Reflection, reflective listening, "active listening." A therapeutic
>>>> technique in which the therapist mirrors or repeats, in his or her own
>>>> words, what the client has just said.
>>>>
>>>> * Research. Rogers was an early advocate for research on the
>>>> effectiveness of therapeutic approaches.
>>>>
>>>> * Transparency involves expressing my deep feelings, as my feelings
>>>> rather than as facts about another, revealing myself as a person, real
>>>> and imperfect as I am, in my relationship with another.
>>>>
>>>> * Unconditional positive regard. To give a client or person my full,
>>>> caring attention without judging or evaluating them. "It is a kind of
>>>> liking which has strength, and which is not demanding."
>>>> What is most personal is most general. The most private,
>>>> personal
>>>> feelings are often those which, if shared, would speak to others
>>>> most
>>>> directly.
>>>>
>>>> * Willingness for another to be separate: Allowing others to have
>>>> different believs, feelings, values, and goals than you do.
>>>>
>>
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