Rogers, Carl Ransom - Theories
Carl Rogers and humanist psychology
Explanation Carl Rogers was not the sole creator of what Maslow called "the third force," humanist psychology. Freud's psychoanalytic theories were considered one force, and behavioral theories pioneered by Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner were a second force. Abraham Maslow, Karen Horney, and Rogers expressed an optimism regarding the human state that neither Freud nor Skinner found to be possible—humanistic psychology, or the "third force." Freud observed that "our mind is no peacefully self-contained unity." Rather he compared the mind to "a mob, eager for enjoyment and destruction . . . to be held down forcibly by a prudent superior class." Rogers, however, believed it had taken him years to undo both his early religious upbringing and Freudian training in psychology classes...
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