Carl Rogers
...validity is my own experience. No other |
| |person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that|
| |I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of |
| |becoming in me. |
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| |Neither the Bible nor the prophets ~ neither Freud nor research - neither the revelations of God nor man |
| |- can take precedence over my own direct experience. |
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| |[....] My experience is not authoritative because it is infallible. It is the basis of authority because |
| |it can always be checked in new primary ways. In this way its frequent error or fallibility is always |
| |open to correction. |
| |Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person (pages 23, 24) |
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An Analysis of Carl Rogers' Theory of Personality
by Dagmar Pescitelli
Since the study of personality began, personality theories have offered a wide variety of explanations for behavior and what constitutes the person. This essay offers a closer look at the humanistic personality theory of Carl Rogers. Rogers' theory of personality evolved out of his...
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