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Carl Rogers

Founder of person-centered psychotherapy and a pioneer of humanistic psychology.

He was the fourth of six children born to Walter A. Rogers, a civil engineer, and Julia M. Cushing, a homemaker.[1][2] Rogers is considered the sixth most eminent psychologist of the 20th century and the second most influential clinical psychologist after Sigmund Freud.[3] The suburb of Chicago known as Oak Park, Illinois, was the birthplace of Carl Rogers on January 8, 1902.[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Carl Ransom Rogers
Born
8 January 1902
Birthplace
Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Died
4 February 1987
Place of death
San Diego, California, U.S.
Field
Psychology
Education
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA)
  • Union Theological Seminary
  • Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Doctoral advisor
Goodwin Barbour Watson

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

After two years at Union, he transferred to Teachers College, Columbia University, earning an M.A. in 1927 and a Ph.D. in 1931.[4] As an intern in 1927–1928, he studied with psychologist Alfred Adler at the Institute for Child Guidance in New York.[5] He was elected president of the American Psychological Association in 1947 and later taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1957 to 1963.[6] After completing his studies at the University of Wisconsin in 1924, Rogers married Helen Elliott, a fellow student from Oak Park, and began his studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.[7]

Based on his professional experience with troubled children, Rogers authored The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child (1939) while serving as a lecturer at the University of Rochester between 1935 and 1940.[8] Humanistic psychology, a movement co-founded by Rogers and Abraham Maslow, achieved its greatest prominence during the 1960s.[9]

What the cited sources add

Brian Thorne, who collaborated with Rogers in his final decade, wrote that Rogers acknowledged a mystical, spiritual dimension beyond scientific psychology.[10] The first empirical evidence of client-centered therapy's effectiveness was published in 1941 by Elias Porter using Rogers's session recordings.[11] Nonviolent Communication was created by Marshall Rosenberg, who earned his doctorate under Rogers's supervision at the University of Wisconsin.[12][9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cushing, "The genealogy of the Cushing family, an account of the ancestors and descendants of Matthew Cushing, who came to America in 1638", The Perrault printing co., 1905, p. 380; "California Death Index, 1940–1997", Ancestry.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "1910 United States Federal Census", Ancestry.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Haggbloom, "'The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century': Correction to Haggbloom et al (2002)", Review of General Psychology, March 2003, p. 37; Haggbloom, S.J., "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century", Review of General Psychology, 2002, p. 139–152; Smith, "Trends in counseling and psychotherapy", American Psychologist, 1982, p. 802–809 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fierro, "'A backdrop for psychotherapy': Carl R. Rogers, psychological testing, and the psycho-educational clinic at Columbia University's Teachers College (1924–1935).", History of Psychology, November 2021, p. 323–349 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ansbacher, "Alfred Adler's influence on the three leading cofounders of humanistic psychology", Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Fall 1990, p. 45–53 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Former APA Presidents"; "American Academy of Psychotherapists History of the Academy" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Michael Martin (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. . "Among celebrity atheists with much biographical data, we find (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kramer, "The Birth of Client-Centered Therapy: Carl Rogers, Otto Rank, and 'The Beyond'", Journal of Humanistic Psychology, October 1995, p. 54–110; Kirschenbaum, "On Becoming Carl Rogers", Delacorte Press, 1979, p. 92–93; deCarvalho, "Otto Rank, the Rankian Circle in Philadelphia, and the Origins of Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Psychotherapy", History of Psychology, 1999, p. 132–148 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "About Dr. Marshall Rosenberg" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Thorne, Brian (2003). Carl Rogers. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pg IX.; Kramer, "The Birth of Client-Centered Therapy: Carl Rogers, Otto Rank, and 'The Beyond'", Journal of Humanistic Psychology, October 1995, p. 54–110 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Carl Rogers" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Porter, E.H. (1941) The development and evaluation of a measure of counseling interview procedure. Ph. D. Dissertation, Ohio State University.; Kirschenbaum, Howard (1979). On Becoming Carl Rogers, pp. 206–207.; Porter, E.H. (1950) An Introduction to Therapeutic Counseling. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; Rogers, Carl. (1951). Client-Centered Therapy. p. 64 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. "About Dr. Marshall Rosenberg". facts only, no text reused. nonviolentcommunication.com

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