Client-Centered Therapy

di Morgan Fire (Autore)

Jayjay Ham LLC, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In the quiet corners of countless therapy offices around the world, a profound transformation has been taking place for decades. It's not marked by dramatic breakthroughs or sudden revelations, but rather by something far more subtle and powerful: the simple act of one human being truly seeing and accepting another. This is the essence of client-centered therapy, a revolutionary approach that turned the traditional therapeutic relationship on its head and forever changed how we understand healing, growth, and human potential. To understand the magnitude of this shift, we must first journey back to the early days of psychotherapy, when the therapist was viewed as the all-knowing expert, wielding interpretation like a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through layers of defense to expose hidden truths. The client was seen as a collection of symptoms to be analyzed, patterns to be decoded, and pathologies to be cured. The power dynamic was clear: the therapist knew what was wrong and how to fix it, while the client's role was to comply, resist, or transfer their feelings onto this authority figure. Into this landscape stepped Carl Rogers, a soft-spoken psychologist whose ideas would fundamentally challenge everything the field thought it knew about therapeutic change. Rogers proposed something radical: what if the client, not the therapist, was the true expert on their own experience? What if healing didn't come from brilliant interpretations or clever interventions, but from the simple provision of certain relational conditions that would allow the client's natural tendency toward growth to flourish? This wasn't merely a theoretical adjustment; it was a complete reimagining of what it means to help another human being. Rogers observed that when people felt truly understood, genuinely accepted, and met with authentic presence, something remarkable happened.

• Autore: Morgan Fire
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 00:43:11
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Jayjay Ham LLC
• EAN: 9798318289224

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