PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Peer Pressure, Super Impose, Abraham Maslow

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Krista Phillips

Document Summary

Very influential, inventor of client-centered therapy first to speak about the pitfalls of psychoanalysissaid that it could actually hurt people as opposed to helping to make them better. Psychoanalysis sets up a power imbalance between the patient and psychologist the patient becomes passive. Rogers went columbia studied clinical psychology, worked mainly with delinquent and disadvantaged children. Wrote the novel clinical treatment of the problem child but is most famous for client-centered therapy novel. Rogers psychology starts and ends with the subjective experience of the individual. We ha(cid:448)e to pa(cid:455) atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) to people"s su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es. For rogers, our subjective personal experience serves as the basis for everything that we do: how we construe the world as an individual. U(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e is e(cid:448)er(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g that"s o(cid:272)(cid:272)urri(cid:374)g i(cid:374) the orga(cid:374)is(cid:373) at a parti(cid:272)ular (cid:373)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: phenomenal field, conscious experience, unconscious experiences/processes. Unconscious experiences cannot be verbalized or imagined.