Word: client
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such evidence stacked against his client, Lawyer Williams took great care in picking jurymen, ended up with a working-class panel of eight Negroes, four whites. Then he proceeded to paint an emotional, vivid-hued contrast between Cheasty and Hoffa. Cheasty, went the Williams defense, was a "liar" and an "informer"; Hoffa was a man who "fought many battles for labor" and "never betrayed a trust." Jimmy himself took the witness stand and, with Williams asking helpful questions, blandly testified that he had hired Cheasty solely as a lawyer to help represent teamsters under investigation. Not until...
...framing a charge in Latin against the Temple's chef for bad cooking. He left the Temple gates to start practicing-according tp legend with only "a horse, a rapier, ten pounds, a ring set with three rose diamonds and the motto (O Prepare.' " His first client was a parson who had been served with a writ of slander. The case was thrown out when Coke spotted that the word messoinges, i.e., lies, had been translated as "messages." When the litigious plaintiff brought suit afresh, young Coke was tempted to ask for a demurrer, i.e., to plead that...
Without Anger or Fear. Far more than the analytic schools, Rogers emphasizes empathy: "To sense the client's private world as if it were your own, but without ever losing the 'as if quality'-this is empathy, and this seems essential to therapy. To sense the client's anger, fear or confusion as if it were your own, yet without your own anger, fear or confusion getting bound up in it." When this condition has been established, Rogers feels, a single interpretive remark by the counselor can work wonders in clarification for the client. There...
...well does the method work? From elaborate follow-ups and independent appraisals, Rogers estimates that two out of ten cases get no better, two are moderately improved, six are. markedly improved. How long it takes depends not on the counselor but on the client: he ends therapy when he feels like it. During most of the center's twelve years, clients have averaged 40 to 50 interviews (at a cost, set largely by themselves, of $5 to $17 a session). Lately Rogers & Co. have been experimenting with short-term treatment: the client is told in advance that...
Last week the client-centered method won notable new ground. The University of Wisconsin named Alumnus Rogers to be professor in psychology and psychiatry, giving him greatly expanded opportunities to spread his gospel of person-to-person therapy...