Reflexivity and Personcentered Counseling  

Oleh:

Rennie, David L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Humanistic Psychology vol. 44 no. 2 (2008), page 182-203.
Topik: Carl Rogers’s concept of person; reflexivity; agency; revision of person-centered counseling
Fulltext: 182.pdf (211.6KB)

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This article is organized around the claim that reflexivity, defined as self-awareness and agency within that self-awareness, is fundamental to being a self. Carl Rogers’s concept of the person is examined in the light of this claim. It is argued that his notion of the person has more to do with ethics than ontology and that his lack of distinction between self and self-concept obscures agency, his tacit recognition of it in his practice of counseling notwithstanding. Harry Frankfurt’s and Charles Taylor’s writings are drawn on to support this. It is suggested that the humanistic prizing of the dignity of the client, making up the ethic of person-centered counseling, is both protected and enhanced once the approach is revised in the light of reflexivity. Implications of this revision for the durability of person-centered counseling in a climate of increasing endorsement of manualized, technical approaches to counseling and psychotherapy are discussed

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