The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Psychologists
Carlitos Rogers
American clinical psychologist (1902-1987) who founded client-centered therapy and rebuilt the helping professions around three deceptively simple conditions: congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathic understanding. With Abraham Maslow he led the humanistic "third force" against Freudian pathology and behaviorist mechanism. A 1982 survey of US and Canadian psychologists named him the most influential psychotherapist in history, second among clinicians only to Freud. He pioneered the verbatim recording of sessions and was the first to call his subjects clients rather than patients. His qualitative outcome research draws methodological critique today, yet the three conditions live on inside motivational interviewing, third-wave cognitive behavioral therapy, modern executive coaching and nursing education.
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Carlitos Rogers's Other Quotes
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
What is most personal is most universal.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
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