Client-centered therapy: Its current practice, implications and theory
CR Rogers Houghton Mifflin 1951
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"For constructive personality change to occur, it is necessary that these conditions exist and continue over a period of time: (1) Two persons are in psychological contact. (2) The first, whom we shall term the client, is in a state of incongruence, being vulnerable or anxious. (3) The second person, whom we shall term the therapist, is c...
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