28 Facts About Carl Rogers

Carl Ransom Rogers was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy.

Carl Rogers was born on January 8,1902, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Carl Rogers's father, Walter A Rogers, was a civil engineer and a Congregationalist by religious denomination.

Carl Rogers's mother, Julia M Cushing, was a homemaker and devout Baptist.

At age 20, following his 1922 trip to Beijing, China, for an international Christian conference, Carl Rogers started to doubt his religious convictions.

Carl Rogers reportedly spoke about spirituality quite often in his later years.

In 1930, Carl Rogers served as director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Rochester, New York.

In 1940, Carl Rogers became professor of clinical psychology at Ohio State University, where he wrote his second book, Counseling and Psychotherapy.

In 1945, Carl Rogers was invited to set up a counseling center at the University of Chicago.

In 1956, Carl Rogers became the first president of the American Academy of Psychotherapists.

Carl Rogers taught psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Carl Rogers was one of the people who questioned the rise of McCarthyism in the 1950s.

Carl Rogers continued teaching at the University of Wisconsin until 1963 when he became a resident at the new Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla, California.

Carl Rogers left the WBSI to help found the Center for Studies of the Person in 1968.

Carl Rogers remained a La Jolla resident for the rest of his life, doing therapy, giving speeches, and writing.

Carl Rogers facilitated dialogue between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast, Blacks and Whites in South Africa, and people transitioning to democracy in Brazil.

In 1987, Carl Rogers suffered a fall that resulted in a fractured pelvis; he had life alert and was able to contact paramedics.

Carl Rogers had a successful operation, but his pancreas failed the next night, and he died a few days later after a heart attack.

Carl Rogers wrote 16 books and many more journal articles about it.

Carl Rogers's theory was based on 19 propositions:.

Carl Rogers calls this the good life, where the organism continually aims to fulfill its potential.

Carl Rogers listed the characteristics of a fully functioning person :.

Carl Rogers identified the "real self" as the aspect of a person that is founded in the actualizing tendency, follows organismic values and needs, and receives positive regard from others and self.

Carl Rogers described the concepts of congruence and incongruence as important in his theory.

Carl Rogers originally developed his theory as the foundation for a system of therapy.

In 1946 Rogers co-authored "Counseling with Returned Servicemen" with John L Wallen, documenting the application of person-centered approach to counseling military personnel returning from World War II.

Carl Rogers described the approach to education in Client-Centered Therapy and wrote Freedom to Learn devoted exclusively to the subject in 1969.

Toward the end of his life, Carl Rogers came to that view himself.