Understanding person-centred counselling : a personal journey / Christine Brown.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The evolution of Rogers' philosophy. The evolution of Rogers' philosophy : Rogers' life and the development of his attitudes and ideas -- Person-centred theory. Rogers' original theory of personality and behaviour : the nineteen propositions -- The actualising tendency -- Organismic experience and the impact of the conditions of worth -- On being fully functioning and 'becoming a person' -- Incongruence and when personality becomes dysfunctional -- Person-centred clinical practice. The necessary and sufficient conditions for psychological change and the importance of the unified extension of the core conditions -- The other characteristic and realtional depth -- Significant odd psychotherapeutic occurrences and mistakes and their relevance to the other characteristic and relational depth -- Diversity and oppression : transcultural and transracial psychotherapeutic relationships -- Person-centred psychotherapeutic creativity and adaptation -- Then, now and to come? Criticisms, controversies and an interconnected world -- Epilogue : the author's life and practice : then, here, and now at the end of this book.