This book presents an introduction to the client-centred psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers. Many elements of this have found their way into other treatment approaches, but they often undergo a considerable change of meaning in the process. The elements include a positive view of human beings, resource...
This book presents an introduction to the client-centred psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers. Many elements of this have found their way into other treatment approaches, but they often undergo a considerable change of meaning in the process. The elements include a positive view of human beings, resource orientation and the outstanding importance given to the therapeutic relationship. This tenth edition therefore once again emphasizes the presentation of the original conception of client-centred psychotherapy, concentrating on the therapeutically effective relationship in which clients feel that they are being accepted in their experience of themselves, sympathetically understood and not evaluated.
Das Buch stellt die von C. Rogers entwickelte Gesprächspsychotherapie im Rahmen des Klientenzentrierten Konzepts dar. Viele ihrer Elemente haben Eingang in andere Therapiekonzepte gefunden, dort aber oft einen nicht unerheblichen Bedeutungswandel erfahren. Dazu gehören das positive Menschenbild, die Ressourcenorientierung oder die herausragende Bedeutung der therapeutischen Beziehung. In der 10. Auflage wird daher erneut besonderes Gewicht auf die Darstellung der ursprünglichen Konzeption der Gesprächspsychotherapie gelegt, die Konzentration auf die therapeutisch wirksame Beziehung, in der der Klient erlebt, dass er in seinem Sich-selbst-Erleben angenommen, empathisch verstanden und nicht bewertet wird.
Dipl.-Psych. Eva-Maria Biermann-Ratjen, a clinical psychologist, is a former lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital. Dr. Jochen Eckert formerly taught at Psychology Institute III at the University of Hamburg. Emeritus Professor Hans-Joachim Schwartz formerly taught in the Department of Social Sciences at the College of Higher Education in Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel.
