Carl Rogers is one of the most influential figures in humanistic psychology. Surprisingly, however, almost no one knows the full story of how he came to develop »relationship therapy«, one of the most popular in the world today. Yet Rogers always acknowledged that a personal encounter with Otto Rank in 1936 revolutionized the way he thought about psychotherapy. »I became infected with Rankian ideas«, he told his biographer. Like Rank, whose last book was entitled Beyond Psychology, Rogers concluded by the end of his life that there is a realm »beyond« scientific psychology, a realm he came to prize as »the transcendent, the indescribable, the spiritual«. Ironically, the spiritual had always been there, hidden in what was closest and most familiar to Rogers: the empathic relationship between therapist and client. This book shows that the spirit of Otto Rank, from whom »relationship therapy« originated, lived on in the mind, heart, and soul of Carl Rogers.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-3-8379-2769-6
ISBN-Online
978-3-8379-7469-0
Publisher
Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen
Series
Forum Psychosozial
Language
English
Pages
133
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Table of contents
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 14
The Trauma of Birth No access Pages 15 - 21
There’s No Substitute for Reading Rank No access Pages 22 - 26
Otto Rank, Midwife of the Subject No access Pages 27 - 30
Mother Love No access Pages 31 - 33
I Sense an Intelligence Rendered Clairvoyant by Feeling No access Pages 34 - 37
What Does a Woman Want? No access Pages 38 - 41
He Was Always Wrapped Upin His Deep Feelings No access Pages 42 - 44
The Surgeon, Who Puts Aside All Feelings, Even His Human Sympathy No access Pages 45 - 48
Relationship Therapy No access Pages 49 - 52
The Real I, or Self with Its Own Power, the Will No access Pages 53 - 56
Learning to Will … Learning to Feel No access Pages 57 - 59
The Consciousness of Living No access Pages 60 - 62
Life Fear … Death Fear No access Pages 63 - 66
A Powerful Desire to Identifywith the Cosmic Forces No access Pages 67 - 69
Creation of One’s Own Individual Cosmos No access Pages 70 - 74
Volitional Affirmation of the Obligatory No access Pages 75 - 78
Maximum Individuality and Maximum Community No access Pages 79 - 81
This, Then, Is the New No access Pages 82 - 84
The Simultaneous Dissolutionof Individuality in a Greater Whole No access Pages 85 - 86
I Became Infected with Rankian Ideas No access Pages 87 - 90
The “Birth” of Client-Centered Therapy No access Pages 91 - 97
Daimonic No access Pages 98 - 103
Is This the Only Reality? No access Pages 104 - 107
An Identity with the Cosmic Process No access Pages 108 - 112
Who Am I? How Did I Come into the World? Why Was I Not Consulted? No access Pages 113 - 118
I Was Born Beyond Psychology No access Pages 119 - 123
