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Carl Rogers |
 | | From early in his career Rogers was a strong proponent of research, challenging psychological research based on the logical positivism of conventional science as not always appropriate for a human science, believing that such methods risked, for instance, depersonalization and dehumanization, the certainty of knowledge, and the myth of objectivity. |
 | | Rogers placed emphasis on the client’s right to select his own life goals, even though their goals may be at odds with the counselor’s goals for them, and on the client’s right to be psychologically independent and maintain psychological integrity (Rogers, 1951). |
 | | Rogers (1951) early on put forth the notion of therapist expertise as having social and philosophical implications that need careful consideration--seeing diagnosis, for instance, as partly a form of social control and as placing the locus of responsibility for treatment in the hands of the expert. |
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