John Shlien was one of the most influential of Carl Rogers' students and associates, as a writer, researcher and academic. This book collects John's best-known work alongside some lesser-know papers and unpublished essays. John was an insightful commentator and creative theorist, able to provoke vigorous debate wherever he went.
John Shlien (1918 - 2002) was a student, colleague and friend of Carl Rogers at the University of Chicago from the late 1940s. He moved to Harvard in 1967 as Professor of Education and Counseling Psychology. Although dedicated to 'pure' Client-Centered Therapy, his career was marked by interdisciplinary projects at Harvard and he published many influential papers and chapters on a wide variety of topics in psychology, counseling and psychotherapy over nearly 50 years.