At age 78, the champion of a "person-centered" therapy and
lifestyle can perhaps be forgiven for this feverish (and
essentially repetitive) collection of papers presented during the
last decade or so: more recapitulation of his therapeutic approach
("realness," a "prizing" of the other, and "empathic" listening
techniques); several retrospectives of his life and work; plus -
still more non-therapeutic applications of his philosophy, this
time in education and "the world of tomorrow." Rogers grew up
friendless and (he claims) near-schizoid in a fundamentalist
religious environment; it is to this, and his subsequent rescue by
understanding friends in college, that he attributes his
recognition of communication's importance. But most of his
therapeutic coups here seem too easily won to be true: even at a
two-day institute for 800 people (!) in Brazil; we are told,
"persons were experiencing significant changes in themselves." The
problems of education are just as neatly put away: we need to
combine "experiential" with cognitive learning (assign them Buber,
but let them rap about drugs, too); and it is even "entirely
possible" to screen future teachers on the basis of their flair for
Rogers' "growth-promoting" techniques. So, then, more pearls from
the master for dyed-in-the-wool adherents - but no genuinely
significant additions to the body of Rogers' work. (Kirkus Reviews)
A Way of Being was written in the early 1980s, near the end of Carl Rogers's career, and serves as a coda to his classic On Becoming a Person. More personal and philosophical than his earlier writings, it traces his professional and personal development and ends with a person-centered prophecy, in which he predicts a future changing in the direction of more humaneness. Now, fifteen years later, the psychiatrist and best-selling author Dr. Irvin Yalom revisits A Way of Being, offering a contemporary view of this remarkable work.
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