Client-Centered Therapy and the Person-Centered Approach

RONALD F.LEVANT is Clinical Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Boston University.JOHN M.SHLIEN is Professor at Harvard University, is well known for his contributions to the development of the client-centered approach in the late 1950's and 1960's.

• Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction/John M. Shlien and Ronald F. Levant Part I: Developments in Theory and Research Section A: The Facilitative Conditions The Empirical Status of Rogers's Hypotheses of the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Effective Psychotherapy/Neill Watson Unconditional Positive Regard; A Controversial Basic Attitude in Client-Centered Therapy/Germain Lietaer Beyond Reflection; Emergent Modes of Empathy/Jerold D. Bozarth Section B: Experiencing/Focusing The Client's Client; The Edge of Awareness/Eugene T. Gendlin Section C: The Self-Concept, the Fully Functioning Person, and Client-Centered Therapy Viewed in Relationship to Cognitive and Psychoanalytic Theories Self-Concept and Identity; Overlapping Portions of a Cognitive Structure of Self/Desmond S. Cartwright and Mary Jane Graham The Fully Functioning Person; Theory and Research/Julius Seeman A Counter-Theory of Transference/John M. Shlien Part II: Developments in Practice Section A: Individual Psychotherapy Client Tasks in Client-Centered Therapy/Laura N. Rice Person-Centered Gestalt; Toward a Holistic Synthesis/Maureen Miller O'Hara Section B: Family Therapy and Enhancement The World of Family Relationships; A Person-Centered Systems View/Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard From Person to System; Two Perspectives/Ronald F. Levant Contributions of Client-Centered Therapy to Filial, Marital, and Family Relationship Enhancement Therapies/Bernard G. Guerney, Jr. Section C: Clinical Supervision Carl Rogers's Client-Centered Approach to Supervision/Harold Hackney and Rodney K. Goodyear Section D: Large Groups Communities for Learning; A Person-Centered Approach/John Keith Wood Part III: Wider Applications of the Person-Centered Approach Person-Centered Administration in Higher Education/William R. Rogers The Personal Meaning of Illness; Client-Centered Dimensions of Medicine and Health Care/David Bernard Rogers's Impact on Pastoral Counseling and Contemporary Religious Reflection/Robert C. Fuller A Person-Centered Approach to Research/David Mearns and John McLeod Secrets and the Psychology of Secrecy; Some Preliminary Thoughts/John M. Shlien Part IV: Another Necessary Condition Are We Doomed to Nuclear Planetary Suicide?/Carl R. Rogers and David Ryback References Index