Carl Rogers

1902 - 1987 20th Century American

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Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was an influential American humanistic psychologist and pioneer of client-centered therapy, emphasizing the innate human drive toward self-actualization, personal growth, and the therapeutic power of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence. Rejecting deterministic psychoanalysis and behaviorism, he promoted a 'Third Force' in psychology focused on subjective experience, free will, and the fully functioning person who is open to experience, trusts their feelings, lives existentially, and embraces creativity.

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