| Carl R. Rogers, the son of prosperous businesspeople, was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1902. He was reared in a strict religious environment that placed great emphasis on the value of hard work and the sharing of responsibility. Rogers enrolled in the University of Wisconsin with the intention of studying agriculture. However, he soon decided to prepare for the ministry.
Leaving Wisconsin in 1924, he entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York. He became deeply involved in clinical work with disturbed children, and his interests shifted to clinical psychology. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1931 and went to work at a guidance clinic in Rochester, New York. He later taught at Ohio State University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin, before settling at the Center for Studies of the Person in La Jolla, California. Throughout his career, Rogers continued to work extensively with delinquent and underprivileged children, gathering the experience that led to his theory of nondirective, or person-centered, therapy. He wrote many influential books, including Client-Centered Therapy (1951), On Becoming a Person (1961), and A Way of Being (1980). He was a leader of the humanistic psychology movement until his death in 1987. |
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