Knowledge or Acknowledgement? Psychotherapy as ‘the art of not-knowing’—Prospects on further developments of a radical paradigm / Erkennen oder Anerkennen? Psychotherapie als „Kunst des Nicht-Wissens”—Ausblicke auf weitere Entwicklungen eines radikalen Paradigmas / ¿Conocimiento o Reconocimiento? La Psicoterapia como ‘El Arte de No Saber’—Perspectivas de Futuros Desarrollos de un Paradigma Radical

Abstract

A way of celebrating the one hundredth anniversary that Carl Rogers himself probably would have liked is to proceed with the understanding of what his revolution means today and what challenges are ahead for tomorrow: within and outside of the ‘person-centered community’. What tasks are ahead if we try to carry Rogers' intentions forward? Such developments need to be carefully rooted in and checked towards the anthropological foundations of person-centeredness. The paper intends to give a short overview of some major developments in the Person-Centered Approach understood from an ‘encounter-philosophical’ point of view, and its ethical and epistemological foundations, with the focus on psychotherapy. Based on this, some consequences for a newer understanding of psychotherapy in general as an ethical enterprise and further developments of the Person-Centered Approach are indicated.