“The third facilitative aspect of the relationship is empathic understanding. This means that the therapist senses accurately the feelings and personal meanings that the client is experiencing and communicates this understanding to the client. When functioning best, the therapist is… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“It was found in practice that when the examinations were conducted in a spirit which led up to conclusions which were bits of advice,… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.” — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“Each man must resolve within himself issues for which his society previously took full responsibility.” — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“I have come to recognize that the reason I devote myself to research, and to the building of theory, is to satisfy a need… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“It seems to me to have value because the curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.” — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious. I am… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“With scientific discovery and invention proceeding, we are told, at the rate of geometric progression, a generally passive and culture-bound people cannot cope with… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“Somewhere here I want to bring in a learning which has been most rewarding, because it makes me feel so deeply akin to others.… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
