Carl Rogers, Control Freak
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Read Carl Rogers, Control Freak to Discover—
• How To Use the Rogerian Method
• How To Save the Work of Carl Rogers
• How To Save Counseling’s Greatest Technique
• How To Use Roger’s Technique
The Work of Carl Rogers
• This book is about the work of Carl Rogers, not the life of Carl Rogers.
• The personal problems Carl Rogers had with alcohol and his marriage have nothing to do with his counseling method.
• This short book focuses on the method of counseling that Rogers invented.
• The messenger is not the message.
• The distinction means that if Carl Rogers’s method is to be evaluated, then it should be evaluated separately from his life.
• Was Rogers a wounded healer? Perhaps so.
Methods Are Not Theories
• Method and technique are not to be confused with counseling theory.
• A counseling theory is a set of guiding principles that structure the course of counseling.
• A method or technique is a strategy for eliciting a response from a client.
• Counseling theories, therefore, provide general directions for achieving specific goals, while methods or techniques are particular strategies for promoting a change or curative response from a client.
Greatest Counseling Method
• Carl Rogers gave the counseling world its most effective, efficient, and advanced method.
• Unfortunately, Rogers feared to face the true nature of his method and buried it under false philosophy and theory that diametrically opposed it.
• Rogers’ betrayal of his method has led to a corruption of his method, causing it to be diluted, at best, and in many cases, lost.
• We must separate the theory of Carl Rogers from the method of Carl Rogers to resurrect and preserve his superior method.
Save the Rogerian Method
• Rogers was a unique genius who provided the counseling world with its best method, and both he and his theory are rightly honored and valued.
• His theory is simply humanism and self-actualization applied to counseling; something others have done both before and after Rogers.
• Rogers was an idealist, and most of his expounded ideals are noble and helpful.
• For instance, Rogers wanted teachers to be facilitators and resource persons for the discovery process, rather than merely a series of audio recordings.
Reexamine the Method
• Both the method of Rogers and the theory of Rogers are valuable in their own right.
• Please re-experience the Rogerian Method in light of this book and leave the rest to dust.
• If we could present the method as our own or something new, we would, but that would be a lie.
• Save counseling’s greatest method for future generations.
• Let us increase the odds that more than just the lucky few can find a counselor proficient in the Rogerian Method.
Practice the Method As Rogers Did
• If you wish to debate Rogers’ theories, then you are missing the point: The Rogerian Method works wonders and needs to be salvaged and seen for what it is, separate from all theory and philosophy.
• Those who continue to banter about philosophies after reading this book are those incapable of performing the method.
• You can have any theoretical orientation you like and still use the Rogerian Method effectively, as long as you understand the method for what it is.
• Putting the method into a new context, a new theory of understanding—frees it for future exploration.
• Once the method is free and alive again, then you can make up any philosophies or theories about it that you want or need.
• The method will have been saved.
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After more than twenty-five years in the counseling field, Mr. FitzMaurice has refined many principles and methods of counseling. He now puts those principles and methods into book form to share them with a wider audience, so more people can benefit than he can reach in person. He has more than forty books, most of which are available worldwide from Amazon and other sources.
Mr. FitzMaurice has a variety of formal and advanced training in counseling, which includes Addictions Counseling, Family Therapy, advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and over 1,650 hours of diverse training for continuing education units (CEUs).
To make the best use of that extensive training, he takes an integrative approach, grounding himself in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (REBT and CBT) and using the other theories to build upon that one core theory, rather than focusing on multiple theories and mastering none of them.
His writings and interests focus on philosophy, psychology, recovery, self-help, and spirituality.
