Kramer The Birth of Relationship Therapy

Carl Rogers meets Otto Rank
2. revised Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-8379-7469-0
Verlag: Psychosozial-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 135 Seiten

Reihe: Forum Psychosozial

Carl Rogers is one of the most influential figures in humanistic psychology. Surprisingly, however, almost no one knows the full story of how he came to develop »relationship therapy«, one of the most popular in the world today. Yet Rogers always acknowledged that a personal encounter with Otto Rank in 1936 revolutionized the way he thought about psychotherapy. »I became infected with Rankian ideas«, he told his biographer. Like Rank, whose last book was entitled Beyond Psychology, Rogers concluded by the end of his life that there is a realm »beyond« scientific psychology, a realm he came to prize as »the transcendent, the indescribable, the spiritual«. Ironically, the spiritual had always been there, hidden in what was closest and most familiar to Rogers: the empathic relationship between therapist and client. This book shows that the spirit of Otto Rank, from whom »relationship therapy« originated, lived on in the mind, heart, and soul of Carl Rogers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kramer, Robert

Über Autor(innen)

Kramer, Robert
Robert Kramer has taught leadership and transformative action learning at George Washington University and American University, Washington DC. Since 2016 he is Visiting Professor at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

Last update: November 2018