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A Miracle of “We!”
Reflections on Carl Rogers’ Interview of a teenager (Elaine) on a Psychiatric Ward (1959)
Some thoughts and feelings of Patrick Howley, a person-centered counselor from Rhode Island, after reading the interview of Elaine.
When Presence Becomes a Way of Life
Throughout my journey, I increasingly perceive that my life path has never truly followed that of a conventional professional trajectory. It resembles far more an inner and relational crossing, a constant search for coherence between who I deeply am, human relationships, and the collective structures within which we evolve.
The Impact of Transpersonal Psychology on Understanding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela
The Role of Color and Music in Overcoming the Ego for Civil and Social Justice
THE POWER OF “EYE” Raymond De Lagrave
June 10, 2021 A number of years ago I came across this representation of a hand in the window of a store in Mexico. It is made of silver, with gold plating on the rays of the sun in the center of the palm and on the human faces on each fingertip. The work is by…
What Is the Person-Centered Approach?
The Person-Centered Approach was developed from the work of the psychologist Dr. Carl Rogers (1902–1987). He advanced an approach to psychotherapy and counseling that, at the time (the 1940s–1960s), was considered extremely radical, if not revolutionary. Originally described as non-directive, this therapy moved away from the idea that the therapist was the expert and towards…
OTHER ANIMALS ARE POSITIVE TOOAnthony Rose
I don’t recall discussing these experiences with Carl. When I left Kaiser Permanente and returned to CSP in 1984, I doubt he heard about my epiphanies with orangutans and gorillas. He didn’t know I was studying great ape ethology and writing about the positive nature of our common primate personhood. Rogers had begun to look…
NEW PARADIGMS FOR PERSONHOODAnthony Rose
Since the 1994 founding of The Biosynergy Institute, our theories and visions, research and innovations, achievements and ongoing programs have evolved in effects, vision, and potential. This year (2021) a new CSP Biosynergy Project will be launched to stand with the Center’s other Internet offerings. There you’ll find a large assortment of articles, essays, poetry…
ALL PATHS LEAD TO THE PERSON Anthony Rose
A half century ago I came to La Jolla to walk by the side of persons who offered an alternative path for psychologists. A positive path. A soft path. A path with heart. A person-centered path that, for me, has wound ‘round the world, exploring the myriad manifestations of personhood in humanity and beyond to…