Talk:Person-centered psychotherapy

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This article looks very amateurish to me. The language is not as rigorous as is expected in an encyclopaedia. There are hardly any citations. The theory is explained colloquially, almost dumbed down, and without a clear structure. Terminology is used loosely. It badly needs some content at least on the six ‘necessary and sufficient conditions’ and on the ‘nineteen propositions’. Links need a serious clean-up.

I hope somebody will have the time and energy to do all these things one day, because I don’t!

(This is my first post ever on Wikipedia. If I'm doing something terribly wrong I apologise.)

Rafael--Rc santurino 03:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement Suggestions

I have an interest in slightly restructuring the person centered pyschotherapy page.

Rogers never used the term person centered pyschotherapy. He used the terms client centered therapy and then switched to the person centered approach.

My thought was to change the name of the page to the person centered approach, include a sentence that indicates that other people call it person centered psychotherapy

Any thoughts, anyone?

peace, Seth Sethie 04:19, 24 November 2005 (UTC)


If he indeed called it Client centered therapy, we can move and amend the article accordingly. --DanielCD 02:55, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


Is the "self-concept" what my teacher calls the "phenomenal self"? Can someone research that and edit the article accordingly? I'll head over to google to finish brushing up for my test, just pointing out a term I don't see in the article. Kuronue 15:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
There hasn't been a lot of movement on this for sometime and I have some spare time to devote to this project, I am just completing a Diploma in Person Centred (Rogerian) Psychotherapy at The University of Warwick and I would like to invite all editors to make suggestions about what needs to be worked on and give that a priority. Cheers. Movellon 21:58, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Rogers' book on the subject is called Client-Centered Therapy. Most of the article discusses it that way. Most WP links that reflect the free will of editors without agendas are via Client-Centered Therapy. What is the rationale for calling it something else? What does the APsychA Dictionary say? Other similarly authoritative sources? DCDuring 20:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)