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Carl Rogers

"Experience is, for me, the highest authority."  (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"Neither the Bible nor the prophets, neither the revelations of God can take precedence over my own direct experience." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"The words 'seem to' are significant; it is the perception which functions in guiding behavior."  (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"It seemed to me it would be a horrible thing to have to profess a set of beliefs, in order to remain in one's profession."  (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"Prior to therapy the person is prone to ask himself, 'What would my parents want me to do?' During the process of therapy the individual come to ask himself, 'What does it mean to me?'" (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"The good life is not any fixed state. The good life is a process. (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"The direction which constitutes the good life is psychological freedom to move in any direction [where] the general qualities of this selected direction appear to have a certain universality." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"When the individual is inwardly free, he chooses as the good life this process of becoming."  (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"The whole emphasis is upon process, not upon end states of being … to value certain qualitative elements of the process of becoming, that we can find a pathway toward the open society."  (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"Individuals move not from a fixity through change to a new fixity, though such a process is indeed possible. But [through a] continuum from fixity to changingness, from rigid structure to flow, from stasis to process." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

 "At one end of the continuum the individual avoids close relationships, which are perceived as being dangerous. At the other end he lives openly and freely in relation to the therapist and to others, guiding his behavior on the basis of his immediate experiencing – he has become an integrated process of changingness."  (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"The major barrier to mutual interpersonal communication is our very natural tendency to judge, to evaluate, to approve or disapprove, the statement of the other person, or the other group." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"What we need to learn, it seems, are ways of gaining acceptance for a humanistic person-centered venture in a culture more devoted to rule by authority." (Freedom To Learn FOR THE 80'S, Carl Rogers, Charles E Merrill Co, Columbus OH. 1969)

"When the individual is inwardly free, he chooses as the good life this process of becoming." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"The qualities of the client's expression at any one point might indicate this position on this continuum, might indicate where he stood in the process of change." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

 "In psychology, Freud and his followers have presented convincing arguments that the id, man's basic and unconscious nature, is primarily made up of instincts which would, if permitted expression, result in incest, murder, and other crimes." "The whole problem of therapy, as seen by this group, is how to hold these untamed forces in check in a wholesome and constructive manner, rather than in the costly fashion of the neurotic." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"'Have you merely released the beast, the id, in man?' There is no beast in man. There is only man in man, and this we have been able to release." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"The innermost core of man's nature, the base of his 'animal nature,' is positive in nature." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"The inner core of man's personality is the organism itself, which is essentially both self-preserving and social." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"Do we dare to generalize from this type of experience that if we cut through deeply enough to our organismic nature, that we find that man is a positive and social animal? This is the suggestion from our clinical experience." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"I don't know exactly who I am, but I can feel my reactions at any given moment, and they seem to work out pretty well as a basis for my behavior from moment to moment." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"Maslow puts up a vigorous case for man's animal nature . . . "  (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"I can be whatever I deeply am." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"The direction which constitutes the good life is psychological freedom to move in any direction [where] the general qualities of this selected direction appear to have a certain universality." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"We try to create a relationship with him in which he is safe and free. . . To accept him as he is, to create an atmosphere of freedom in which he can move in his thinking and feeling and being, in any direction he desires." "The individual in such a moment, is coming to be what he is. He has experienced himself."  "The individual increasingly comes to feel that this locus of evaluation lies within himself." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

 "Walden Two: 'Now that we know how positive reinforcement works [dialogue to consensus], and why negative doesn't' [chastening]... 'we can be more deliberate and hence more successful in our cultural design. "We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was ever the case under the old system, nevertheless feel free.  They are doing what they want to do, not what they are forced to do.  That's the source of the tremendous power of positive reinforcement―there's no restrain and no revolt. By a careful design, we control not the final behavior, but the inclination to behavior―the motives, the desires, the wishes.  The curious thing is that in that case the question of freedom never arises." "If we have the power or authority to establish the necessary conditions, the predicted behaviors will follow." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"Dr. Skinner says: 'We must accept the fact that some kind of control of human affairs is inevitable.  We cannot use good sense in human affairs unless someone engages in the design and construction of environmental conditions which affect the behavior of men."   "Environmental changes have always been the condition for the improvement of cultural patterns, and we can hardly use the more effective methods of science without making changes on a grander scale . . ." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"To create effectively a new set of attitudes and values, the individual must undergo great reorganization of his personal beliefs and attitudes and he must be involved in an environment which in many ways is separated from the previous environment in which he was developed."  "...many of these changes are produced by association with peers who have less authoritarian points of view, as well as through the impact of a great many courses of study in which the authoritarian pattern is in some ways brought into question while more rational and nonauthoritarian behaviors are emphasized."  (David Krathwohl, Benjamin Bloom et al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Book 2: Affective Domain)

"We know how to change the opinions of an individual in a selected direction, without his ever becoming aware of the stimuli which changed his opinion."  "We know how to influence the ... behavior of individuals by setting up conditions which provide satisfaction for needs of which they are unconscious, but which we have been able to determine."  "If we have the power or authority to establish the necessary conditions, the predicted behaviors [our potential ability to influence or control the behavior of groups] will follow."  (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

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