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Assignment:
VIDEO - Three Approaches to Psychotherapy (1964) Part 1: Client-Centered Therapy with Carl Rogers, Ph.D.
Part I: Carl Rogers, Ph.D. (Client-Centered Therapy)
To explore the theory further, let's shift from the theoretical and abstract to the particular experiences of an adult women. You are going to watch about 25 minutes of video. This film was actually made to teach different approaches to psychotherapy. And the same woman (Gloria) generously and courageously made herself available to different therapists so viewers could see different ways that the different therapists work.
Gloria meets with a therapist named Carl Rogers, the creator of an approach to therapy called the "client centered" approach. Rogers believed that people are best helped not by his offering his own interpretations and analyses but rather by just following them very closely.
But don't worry too much about what Rogers is doing. Please focus your attention on Gloria. This film is useful for our purposes because Rogers follows Gloria so closely, and that gives us a chance to learn a good deal about how Gloria makes meaning.
As you watch try and get some sense of how Gloria makes meaning. Pay attention to what Gloria says is going on in her life outside the therapist's office at some time previous to this moment in the therapist's office. You can also pay attention to what she is actually doing at the very moment she is meeting with the therapist.
What can you kind of infer (even tentatively) from these data? Questions to consider while/after you watch:
1. Where does she set the boundary between herself and others?
2. What does she take responsibility for psychologically, and what responsibility does she assign to others?
3. What does she take psychological control over, and what does she see as something others should take psychological control over?