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Biography of Carl Ransom RogersName: Carl Ransom RogersBirth Date: January 8, 1902 Death Date: 1987 Place of Birth: Oak Park, Illinois, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: psychotherapist, educator Carl Ransom Rogers Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987) was an American psychotherapist who originated person-centered, non-directive counseling.Carl Rogers was born on January 8, 1902, in Oak Park, Illinois, the fourth of six children to Walter and Julia (Cushing) Rogers. His father, a successful contractor, engineer, and farmer, believed in the virtue of hard work. His mother had strong fundamentalist religious convictions and raised her six children (five boys) in a home where drinking, smoking, dancing, and playing cards were sinful. She believed that the elect people of God should not mingle with those whose actions indicated that they were otherwise.Rogers later said that his attitude as a youth toward others outside the home "was characterized by distance and aloofness ... taken over from ... parents." (A Way of Being, 1980). He had only superficial contacts with others, "never having a real date in high school." He was a solitary boy who between numerous farm chores found time to …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…groups in South Africa. He was deeply interested in applying the principles of the person-centered approach to international affairs in the interest of world peace. He died in 1987. Further Reading Insightful autobiographical sketches with personal anecdotes are found in chapters 2, 3, and 4 of A Way of Being (1980) and in chapter 1 of On Becoming a Person (1961). A comprehensive biography by Howard Kirchenbaum is On Becoming Carl Rogers (1979). Also, a brief autobiography was published in A History of Psychology in Autobiography, vol. 5, edited by Edwin G. Boring (1967). An overview of his person-centered therapy can be found in On Becoming a Person (1961), and an overview of his theory of education is in Freedom To Learn (1969).Evans, Richard I. (Richard Isadore), Carl Rogers: the man and his ideas, New York: Dutton, 1975. Evans, Richard I. (Richard Isadore), Dialogue with Carl Rogers, New York, N.Y.: Praeger, 1981, 1975. Kirschenbaum, Howard, On becoming Carl Rogers, New York: Delacorte Press, 1979. |