Person Centered Therapy by Saul McLeod published 2008 Humanistic
therapies evolved in the USA in the 1950s. Carl Rogers proposed
that therapy could be simpler, warmer and more optimistic than
that carried out by behavioral or psychodynamic psychologists.
His view differs sharply from the psychodynamic and behavioral
approaches in that he suggested that clients would be better
helped if they were encouraged to focus on their current
subjective understanding rather than on some unconscious motive
or someone else's interpretation of the situation. Rogers
strongly believed that in order for a client's condition to
improve therapists should be warm, genuine and understanding.
The starting point of the Rogerian approach to counseling and
psychotherapy is best stated by Rogers (1986) himself. "It is
that the individual has within himself or herself vast resources
for self-understanding, for altering his or her self-concept,
attitudes and self-directed behavior - and that these resources
can be tapped if only a defin