Theories of Personality: Carl Rogers (Self-Actualization Theory)

Описание: Step into the phenomenal world of Carl Rogers, the theorist who redefined the patient as a "client" and shifted the focus of psychology from unconscious drives to the power of conscious, subjective experience. This video offers a rigorous academic overview of Self-Actualization Theory, exploring how the individual serves as the primary architect of their own personality change.

In this lecture, we examine:

The Actualizing Tendency: An analysis of the single, innate motivation to develop all human potentials, a process that begins in the womb and continues through the struggle of maturation.
The Organismic Valuing Process: How we evaluate life experiences based on their ability to foster or hinder growth, creating a unique experiential frame of reference.
The Development of the Self: The differentiation of the "I" and "me" from the environment, and the universal, persistent need for positive regard.
Conditions of Worth vs. Incongruence: A deep dive into how conditional parental love creates a "parental surrogate" within the self, leading to a discrepancy between the self-concept and the experiential world.
The Fully Functioning Person: A profile of the peak of psychological development, characterized by an openness to all experience, existential living, and a profound trust in one's own organism.
Assessment and the Q-Sort: Evaluating the clinical utility of the Q-sort technique to quantify the correspondence between the perceived self and
the ideal self.

Human Nature: Rogers’s optimistic rejection of Freudian determinism, asserting that we are rational beings capable of self-directed growth regardless of past events.
Join us as we explore the "good life"—not a static destination, but a fluid direction of becoming.

Keywords: #carlrogers , #Person-Centered #Therapy, #Self-Actualization, Actualizing Tendency, Incongruence, Unconditional Positive Regard, Q-Sort, Humanistic Psychology.