Tara Walker
Psychology 106-751RL
April 20, 2008

Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987)

Carl Rogers was born on January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The fourth of six children, his father was a successful civil engineer and his mother was a housewife and devout Christian. His education started in the 2nd grade, because he could already read before kindergarten.

Rogers was an American psychologist who originated the nondirective, or client-centered therapy and counseling, student-centered education, and person-centered approaches to human relations and community. He profoundly humanized psychology of human potential which has been embraced by not only American culture but by much of the developed world.

He attended the University of Wisconsin, but his interest in psychology and psychiatry originated while he was a student at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. After two years he left the seminary and took his M.A. (1928) and his Ph.D. (1931) from......

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