Themes and Issues in Psychology

1. Humanistic Psychology: Carl Rogers (Essential reading: Glassman and Hadad 2004 – Chapter 6 or an equivalent text.)

5. Carl Rogers ‘ Client-Centred Therapy’ ‘ Person-centred Therapy’

21. Dynamics of Rogers’ Core Conditions? Actualisation Society Organismic Valuing Conditions of worth Positive Self-regard Conditional Positive self regard Real Self Ideal Self Source: Webspace.ship.edu/cboer/rogers/html

23. Dynamics of Rogers’ Core Conditions? Actualisation Society Organismic Valuing Conditions of worth Positive Self-regard Conditional Positive self regard Real Self Ideal Self Congruence Unconditional Positive Regard Empathy Source: Webspace.ship.edu/cboer/rogers/html

32. Connections with other theories? Theory Element of Rogers’ theory Evolutionary psychology Our need for ‘positive regard’. Our need for social connection. Social psychology Influence and impact of relationship. Development in relationship. E.g. Vygotsky, and zone of proximal development. Behaviourism The ‘core conditions of growth’ are a form of conditioning. Psychodynamics and Freud ‘ Animalistic self’ versus ‘biological self’. Super ego relates to the ‘ideal self’.

33. A measure of Carl Rogers "In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

38. ‘ I ‘ Interior individual ‘ IT ’ Exterior Individual ‘ We ’ Collective Cultural ‘ ITS ’ Social system Environment (Adapted and developed from different writing of Ken Wilber.) Psychodynamics. Instincts. Ego. Id. Intrapersonal. Phenomenology . Self-actualization. Experimental psychology. Cognitive psychology. ‘ Brain’. ‘Organism’. Behaviourism. Interpersonal. Relationships . ‘ Object relations’ theory Group psychology? Family ‘system’. ‘Super ego’? Humanistic psychology . Cross-cultural psychology. ‘ Generalized’ psychology. Organisational psychology. Source of the ‘super ego’?