A Collaborative Inquiry between a Person-Centered Therapist and a Client: Working with an emerging dissociated self - 0: Introduction

Morris, M., Turner, R., Rolfe, G. - Pseudonym

Article | From volume/issue: 6.2 | Pages: 78–80; 81–91; 92–106; 107–11

Abstract: This is my account of a therapeutic journey which started with two adults, a counselor named Rob and myself, the student. On the way, however, we were to encounter a young child. The journey was not to be an easy one; it would hold many challenges for both of us and events which readers may see as strange or even bizarre. During this time a special therapeutic relationship was to develop and mature, its very existence being built on the elements of trust and safety.

A Collaborative Inquiry between a Person-Centered Therapist and a Client: Working with an emerging dissociated self - 1: Part One: Adult Mary/Young Mary — One self, two parts

Morris, M.

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Keywords: trust, safety, relationship

A Collaborative Inquiry between a Person-Centered Therapist and a Client: Working with an emerging dissociated self - 2: Part Two: The Therapist’s Perspective

Turner, R.

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Keywords: person centered approach, dissociated process, therapeutic relationship, case study, collaborative inquiry, evidence

A Collaborative Inquiry between a Person-Centered Therapist and a Client: Working with an emerging dissociated self - 3: Part Three: Afterword: Therapy as research

Rolfe, G.

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Keywords: evidence, case study, validity, reliability

Cultural Diversity, Therapist Openness and Carl Rogers: An interview with Nat Raskin

Roy Moodley, R., Mier, S. - University of Toronto

Article | From volume/issue: 6.2 | Pages: 141–151

Keywords: culture, race, diversity, counseling, Raskin, Rogers

Abstract: In recent times there has been a growing tendency to examine the relationship between cultural diversity and client-centered therapy (CCT) (e.g., Cornelius-White, 2003; Holdstock, 1990, 2005; Moodley, Lago & Talahite, 2004; Patterson, 2000; Thorne, 2000). Many CCT practitioners argue that CCT is culture-free (Brodley, 2004; Wilkins, 2003). However, the influence of culture or multiculture has been there from the very beginning. Rogers, for example, indicated that Taoism was an influence on his development of client-centered therapy (Rogers, 1980, cited in Sollod, 2005). The culture-free position has also been favored by Nat Raskin when he discussed race and culture in CCT in this interview. Through very personal and often very moving family experiences Nat Raskin attempts to explain how as a therapist he worked with the issues of race, culture and the complexities of racism and other discriminations, while at the same time seeing the work as being culture-free. He argues that within this philosophy he is “open to whatever background” the client presents, “or whatever social class the person belongs to,” a position that is consistent with Rogers’ ideas. The interview explores both the intellectual and personal connections between Nat Raskin and Carl Rogers.

Schizophrenia is Not an Illness — A response to van Blarikom

Sanders, P. - UK

Article | From volume/issue: 6.2 | Pages: 112—28

Keywords: schizophrenia, person-centered, biological psychiatry, diagnosis, social psychiatry

Abstract: There are several interesting and worthwhile points in van Blarikom (2006), A Person-Centered Approach to Schizophrenia, Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 5, 155–173, however, this paper is a rebuttal of one of his central themes — that person-centered and experiential (PCE) therapists should accept that schizophrenia is an illness. A range of evidence refuting the illness metaphor favored by biological psychiatry and supporting social and psychological models is presented. It is argued that PCE philosophy and theory are essentially aligned with social psychiatry and psychology critical of the disease model of schizophrenia and PCE therapists would further marginalize themselves if they accepted van Blarikom’s advice.

The Actualizing and Formative Tendencies: Prioritizing the motivational constructs of the person-centered approach

Cornelius-White, J.H. - Missouri State University

Article | From volume/issue: 6.2 | Pages: 129—140

Keywords: formative tendency, actualizing tendency, multicultural, self-determination, positive interdependence

Abstract: The article advocates for the equal prioritization of the formative and actualizing tendencies as motivational constructs in the person-centered approach. It describes a rationale, including problems with self-determination, varied identity ideas, and the ever-changing global context. The actualizing tendency roots growth in the maintenance and enhancement of the single human individual while the formative tendency is broader and both subsumes and exists in dialogue with the actualizing tendency. The formative tendency applies to all life processes, whether individual or group, organic or inorganic. It posits growth as fundamentally interconnected. Explicit prioritizing of both tendencies aids a multicultural and ethical understanding of person-centered theory where compromise and wider applications are necessary.