Carl Rogers: Dialogues- Conversations with Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, B. F. Skinner, Gregory Bateson, Michael Polanyi, Rollo May, and Others - Hardcover

Carl Rogers; Paul Tillich; B. F. Skinner; Michael; Polanyi; Rollo May; Valerie Land Henderson; Martin Buber; Gregory Bateson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0094697906 ISBN 13: 9780094697904

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1989

Synopsis

Offers a brief profile of Rogers, and shares his discussions with theologians and psychologists issues in psychotherapy

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

"It has never been my intention to inaugurate a 'school' of psychotherapy," claimed psychologist Rogers (1902-1987), but his pioneering influence in client-centered therapy sparked controversy within the profession, as well as among philosophers and religious thinkers. The transcriptions that form the bulk of this volume, however, do not reveal the full force of his impact. Though they probe ideas of fundamental concern to scientists, epistemologists, psychologists and others, the dialogues--many of which were presented, with moderators, at universities and in other public forums--too often lack the spontaneity of spirited intellectual exchange, and Rogers's remark on B. F. Skinner--"I am not quite sure who it is he is talking to, but somehow he is not talking to me"--will resonate for some readers. When declining into parallel monologues, the "conversations" make slow reading, while those with Buber and Tillich offer valuable insights to the faithful. Kirschenbaum wrote On Becoming Carl Rogers and Henderson was a longtime assistant of Rogers.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0094697906
• ISBN 13: 9780094697904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255
• Editor: Howard Kirschenbaum