Rogers, Carl R.
Rogers, Carl R. (Ransom) (1902-1987), a United States psychologist. He developed the “client-centered,” or “nondirective,” approach to counseling persons with emotional problems. In Counseling and Psychotherapy (1942) and Client-Centered Therapy (1951), Rogers described how a counselor helps a client work out solutions to difficulties without directing the person to the solution. How to live in a positive way was the theme of later books, On Becoming a Person (1961) and Becoming Partners: Marriage and Its Alternatives (1972).
Rogers was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1931. Rogers taught at Ohio State University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin. He was later associated with the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute and the Center for Studies of the Person, both in La Jolla, California.