Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisconsin as an agriculture major, finished with a B.A. in history. At Columbia University's Teachers College he plunged into psychology, emerged with a Ph.D. and headed for Rochester, where he worked with juvenile delinquents for twelve years. Rogers did not realize that he had developed a distinctive method of treating patients until, in 1940, he described his technique at a professional meeting and saw eyebrows lifting all around. By 1945 he had established himself at the University of Chicago as professor of psychology and set up a counseling center in a drab, three-story house on Drexel Avenue...
Without Dreams. While giving credit to Freud as a pioneer, Rogers vigorously resists the tendency of analysts to worship the father-figure of psychoanalysis, and the parallel tendency to put the theory and the method of treatment ahead of all else, so that every patient is fitted to a Procrustean couch. Rogers may have exaggerated the differences between his method and that of other therapists who follow Freud but with modifications. Radical Rogers likes to talk about "treatment with no couches, no dream interpretations...
...Rogers describes his method: "The therapist has been able to enter into an intensely personal and subjective relationship with this client-relating not as a scientist to an object of study, not as a physician expecting to diagnose and cure, but as person to person. The therapist has been able to let himself go in understanding this client, satisfied with providing a climate which will free the client to become himself...
...procedure, Rogers has tried hard to make it precise. The one kind of equipment on which he has not stinted money is a battery of recording machines. From transcripts of therapy sessions counselors can check their own and one another's performances; aspirants in training can learn the method-and clients often ask to have recordings played back to them, to help them understand changes in themselves...
...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...