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Humanistic Psychology - Carl Rogers

This document summarizes key concepts from humanistic psychology theorists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. It discusses Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the barriers to meeting self-actualization needs, then focuses on Rogers' idea of "conditions of worth" where people experience approval as conditional rather than unconditional. Rogers' client-centered therapy aims to provide unconditional positive regard to relax defenses and allow one's true self to emerge through a process of self-actualization.

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Humanistic Psychology - Carl Rogers

This document summarizes key concepts from humanistic psychology theorists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. It discusses Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the barriers to meeting self-actualization needs, then focuses on Rogers' idea of "conditions of worth" where people experience approval as conditional rather than unconditional. Rogers' client-centered therapy aims to provide unconditional positive regard to relax defenses and allow one's true self to emerge through a process of self-actualization.

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Psyc 310 Psychology of Personality

What stops us from being self-actualizing?


Maslow:

Humanistic Psychology Carl Rogers

Selfactualization
needs

Psychology 310
Psychology of Personality

Esteem
needs
Love and
Belonging needs
Safety and physical
Security needs

Listen to the audio lecture while viewing these slides


1

Rogers:
Need positive
regard
Get conditional
positive regard
So, experience
positive regard
(from self & others)
as conditional &
fragile

Physiological needs

Psyc 310 Psychology of Personality

Psyc 310 Psychology of Personality

Conditions of Worth

Conditions of Worth

If

You try to construct an image of yourself in


your and others minds congruent with
conditions of worth

need to meet external and internalized


expectations or conditions of worth to feel
worthy

So you deny, distort, rationalize (selfprotective attributions), self-handicap, and


on and on
even if it makes you less fully functioning or
self-actualizing

Then
Motivation or locus of causality becomes
external to self
Feel pressured, not self-determining

Information becomes evaluation


Feel defensive, not open
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Psyc 310 Psychology of Personality

Psyc 310 Psychology of Personality

Rogerian Therapy

How does it work?

Nondirective / Client-centered / Person-centered


Technique = reflective / empathic listening

If the understanding and love you received


from others was conditional

Restate Content
Clarify Feelings

Active Ingredient = way of being which communicates


Empathy
Unconditional Positive Regard
Genuineness / Congruence

You learned to perceive & evaluate yourself


based on these conditions of worth

If the understanding and love from others


any othersis unconditional
You weaken those conditions of worth
Your defenses relax

feelings awareness expression


I am open with you the way I am open with myself
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Psyc 310 Psychology of Personality

As you relax

And what is your true self?

More open to

That fully functioning, self-actualizing


person (described in the previous lesson)

others
feedback from the world
yourself

Complex, changing, fully open to and


embracing of
Oneself
Others
And the process of living

More open to experiences that are


confusing, complex, uncertain and
more complete, accurate, & actualizing

More Personal Power


To be that self which I truly am
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Psyc 310 Psychology of Personality

Maslow's & Rogers' Conclusion


Quieting needs for approval & esteem
enables you to listen to your actualizing
tendency or needs for self-actualization'
which promotes a (unique and unending)
process of self-actualization

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