Volume 2. Number 1 (1995)
Front cover. (PDF only)
Front inside cover (PDF only)
Jerold D. Bozarth.
Request for comments. Barry Grant. (PDF only)
THE PERSON IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST
THE PERSON IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST(Poem) PDF
IF WE DANCE, WHO LEADS?
Arthur C. Bohart
Jeanne's response to our article is an excellent example of empathic resonance. in that while she raises a number of questions and concerns concerning our proposal, it is done in a way that stimulates me to go further with my own thinking. Because of publication pressures I was unable to enlist the opinions of my co-author. So I will respond for me. Since Jeanne wrote her response from the perspective of the client, I will write my reply from the perspective of the therapist. I will try to answer her questions indirectly by elaborating, on our paper.
WHO'S WHO OF CLIENT-CENTERED THERAPY
WHO'S WHO OF CLIENT-CENTERED THERAPY PDF
As Client-Centered therapists, we seek to understand the world through the words and stories of our clients. What about our peers, our leaders - the "Giants" in our profession? Who are they? How did they become the leaders? What are their views of the world, of psychotherapy, and of the future?
During the last few years, as a student of counseling, I've read the words and observations of many past leaders in psychotherapy such as Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, Jack Bardon, Donald Super, and others. Now, I look to learn more about the current persons of influence among Client-Centered theorists. We have the opportunity now to record the words, thoughts, and observations of C. H. Patterson, Fred Zimring, Barbara Brodley, Nat Raskin, Jerold Bozarth, and the list goes on. I would like to propose that the journal seek to obtain and record a "Who's Who of Client-Centered Therapy." To initiate and encourage this venture, I offer a beginning by sharing with you, a biographical interview with C. H. Patterson. I can't think of a better place to find an interview of this outspoken advocate for the Person-Centered Approach than in the Person-Centered Journal.
EFFECTING A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
ROGERS'S CLIENT-CENTERED THERAPY
AND KOHUT'S SELF PSYCHOLOGY
EFFECTING A COLLABORATION BETWEEN ROGERS'S CLIENT-CENTERED THERAPY AND KOHUT'S SELF PSYCHOLOGY. PDF
Because of important similarities between the two thinkers, it is worthwhile to make a comparison between the contemporary psychoanalytic work of Heinz Kohut and the concepts of Carl Rogers. Heinz Kohut (1971, 1977, 1984) has been an influential innovator in psychoanaly- sis. His approach, referred to as "self psychology," has incorporated many of the ideas of the Rogerian "client-centered" approach (Kahn, 1985, 1989a, 1989b; Stolorow, 1976; Tobin, 1990, 1991). For example, two of Kohut's most basic ideas, that of the "self" and of "empathy," were discussed by Rogers some 50 years ago.
Robert Rosenbaum California Institute of Integral Studies
ABSTRACT. An integrative model of psychotherapy is presented in which the therapist can use techniques and "interventions," but from a fundamentally person-centered stance. It is argued that ultimately all therapy is self-help and that it is clients who heal themselves. However the therapeutic relationship is a particularly useful “self-help space” in which clients can grow. Therapy is therefore fundamentally relational, with technology second. In a relational model of therapy, empathy is important and conceived as resonance.. Appreciation of the client becomes a major modality of relating. Techniques can be offered as ways of appreciating empathizing with and relating to clients. Empathy and experiencing are conceived of in fundamentally aesthetic terms f
AND WOULD I DARE TO DANCE?
AND WOULD I DARE TO DANCE? AN AESTHETIC RESPONSE PDF
ABSTRACT. The author presents a new model of psychotherapy which is in the person-centered tradition, but which is especially distinctive in its affirmation of the We-Experience (genuine mutual connectedness between the client and the psychotherapist) as the most therapeutically potent component of the psychotherapeutic relationship. The author posits that a high level of psychotherapist integration can enable the psychotherapist to have sufficient sensitivity to the more and less subtle sources of information in the psychotherapeutic relationship. Then through the psychotherapist's actions based on this sensitivity, the client may preponderantly experience this psychotherapeutic relationship as flowing, as an on-going We-Experience, rather than as being disjointed. This new psychotherapeutic model has been named "We-Rhythm Therapy.”
Jeanne P. Stubbs
University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
The following interview occurred as a demonstration at an International Forum for the Person-Centered Approach. Bob Lee, the therapist in the interview, has been practicing client-centered therapy for twenty-five years and volunteered to conduct a demonstration. As a result of the context of the demonstration, the international population present at the Forum, and the simulation of the exchange of ideas, this interview was an opportunity for the participants of the Forum to observe the demonstration and late to participate in the discussion of their observations.
The process of providing this transcript included transcribing the actual demonstration interview and the discussion following the interview. Additionally, both participants, the therapist and the client, were invited to submit comments about the experience. Upon reading the transcript and ensuing discussion, both declined to offer additional thoughts and observations.
By Jo Cohen
Community mental health: A practical guide. (2nd ed.).
Mosher, L., & Burti L (1994).
New York:: W.W. Norton & Company.
A UNIVERSAL SYSTEM
A UNIVERSAL SYSTEM OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PDF
C. H. Patterson University of North Carolina at Greensboro
ABSTRACT. Currently it is generally accepted that existing theories and approaches to psychotherapy, developed in Western cultures, are not applicable to other cultures. A model is proposed that, while based on certain theoretical and research foundations in Western culture, also recognizes and derives from universal drives, motivations and goals of all human beings, indeed of all living organisms. It is therefore neither time nor culture bound.
The model is developed in terms of three levels of goals: (1) the ultimate goal, common to all clients; (2) mediate goals, that allow for cultural and individual differences; and (3) the immediate goal, involving the therapy relationship. The therapist conditions necessary, and possibly sufficient, for the development of a relationship leading to the achievement of the mediate and ultimate goals are defined
WHAT'S SO UNIVERSAL ABOUT EMPATHY,
CONGRUENCE, AND POSITIVE REGARD?
WHAT'S SO UNIVERSAL ABOUT EMPATHY, CONGRUENCE, AND POSITIVE REGARD? A REPLY TO PATTERSON PDF
Patterson (1994) in his paper, "A Universal System of Psychotherapy," does not make good on his claim to offer a universal system of psychotherapy. What he offers instead is the very sort of thing to which he contrasts his model: an "abstract, theoretical, philosophical, ethical [and] religious" system that is not universal and not likely to become universal.
RESPONSE TO BARRY PDF
Barry's comments are essentially a
rhetorical listing of his disagreements with me. For me to respond to each of
them would be to reiterate my position. He asks for evidence for my statements,
but presents none for his own. My evidence is based on 55 years of study,
practice, research, writing, and teaching in the field of psychotherapy. It is
presented in a book (co-authored by Suzanne Freeman and to be titled
Psychotherapy: A Universal System) that is nearing completion. I will leave
it to history to judge the issues.
( Hhis is the entire response. Web Ed.)