Robert Kramer
The Birth of Relationship Therapy
Carl Rogers meets Otto Rank
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Buchreihe: Forum Psychosozial
Verlag: Psychosozial-Verlag
132 Seiten, Broschur, 125 x 190 mm
Erschienen im Juni 2019
ISBN-13: 978-3-8379-2769-6, Bestell-Nr.: 2769
Carl Rogers is one of the most influential figures in humanistic
psychology. Surprisingly, however, almost no one knows the full
story of how he came to develop »relationship therapy«, one of the
most popular in the world today. Yet Rogers always acknowledged
that a personal encounter with Otto Rank in 1936 revolutionized the
way he thought about psychotherapy. »I became infected with Rankian
ideas«, he told his biographer. Like Rank, whose last book was
entitled Beyond Psychology, Rogers concluded by the end of
his life that there is a realm »beyond« scientific psychology, a
realm he came to prize as »the transcendent, the indescribable, the
spiritual«. Ironically, the spiritual had always been there, hidden
in what was closest and most familiar to Rogers: the empathic
relationship between therapist and client. This book shows that the
spirit of Otto Rank, from whom »relationship therapy« originated,
lived on in the mind, heart, and soul of Carl Rogers.