Abstract
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the prescience of Carl Rogers’ warning to his graduate students that they would experience ‘one hell of a lot of trouble’ if they adopted his model of psychotherapy. I refer to several trends in contemporary psychotherapy that present challenges and threats to the practice of person-centered and experiential therapies (PCET). In particular, I focus upon (a) the paradox of Rogers’ continuing influence and the marginalization of PCET attributed to the politics of evidence-based research; (b) the dominance of assessment and diagnosis of psychopathology that was problematic for Rogers; and (c) the practice of ‘person-centered care’, a philosophical health movement that has developed in medical and rehabilitation facilities and which could be misconstrued as another form of PCET, or a person-centered medical model. It is, however, incompatible with Rogers’ original theoretical formulation that rejects a disorder- and problem-oriented approach, and trusts in the self-healing capacity of the person.
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