The Birth of Relationship Therapy

Robert Kramer

doi:10.30820/9783837974690

The Birth of Relationship Therapy

Carl Rogers meets Otto Rank

Series: Forum Psychosozial

1. Edition 2019

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doi.org/10.30820/9783837974690
ISBN print: 978-3-8379-2769-6
ISBN online: 978-3-8379-7469-0
Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen

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Zusammenfassung

Carl Rogers is one of the most influential figures in humanistic psychology. Surprisingly, however, almost no one knows the full story of how he came to develop »relationship therapy«, one of the most popular in the world today. Yet Rogers always acknowledged that a personal encounter with Otto Rank in 1936 revolutionized the way he thought about psychotherapy. »I became infected with Rankian ideas«, he told his biographer. Like Rank, whose last book was entitled Beyond Psychology, Rogers concluded by the end of his life that there is a realm »beyond« scientific psychology, a realm he came to prize as »the transcendent, the indescribable, the spiritual«. Ironically, the spiritual had always been there, hidden in what was closest and most familiar to Rogers: the empathic relationship between therapist and client. This book shows that the spirit of Otto Rank, from whom »relationship therapy« originated, lived on in the mind, heart, and soul of Carl Rogers.

Abstract

Carl Rogers is one of the most influential figures in humanistic psychology. Surprisingly, however, almost no one knows the full story of how he came to develop »relationship therapy«, one of the most popular in the world today. Yet Rogers always acknowledged that a personal encounter with Otto Rank in 1936 revolutionized the way he thought about psychotherapy. »I became infected with Rankian ideas«, he told his biographer. Like Rank, whose last book was entitled Beyond Psychology, Rogers concluded by the end of his life that there is a realm »beyond« scientific psychology, a realm he came to prize as »the transcendent, the indescribable, the spiritual«. Ironically, the spiritual had always been there, hidden in what was closest and most familiar to Rogers: the empathic relationship between therapist and client. This book shows that the spirit of Otto Rank, from whom »relationship therapy« originated, lived on in the mind, heart, and soul of Carl Rogers.

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1–14 Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis 1–14
15–21 The Trauma of Birth 15–21
22–26 There’s No Substitute for Reading Rank 22–26
27–30 Otto Rank, Midwife of the Subject 27–30
31–33 Mother Love 31–33
34–37 I Sense an Intelligence Rendered Clairvoyant by Feeling 34–37
38–41 What Does a Woman Want? 38–41
42–44 He Was Always Wrapped Upin His Deep Feelings 42–44
45–48 The Surgeon, Who Puts Aside All Feelings, Even His Human Sympathy 45–48
49–52 Relationship Therapy 49–52
53–56 The Real I, or Self with Its Own Power, the Will 53–56
57–59 Learning to Will … Learning to Feel 57–59
60–62 The Consciousness of Living 60–62
63–66 Life Fear … Death Fear 63–66
67–69 A Powerful Desire to Identifywith the Cosmic Forces 67–69
70–74 Creation of One’s Own Individual Cosmos 70–74
75–78 Volitional Affirmation of the Obligatory 75–78
79–81 Maximum Individuality and Maximum Community 79–81
82–84 This, Then, Is the New 82–84
85–86 The Simultaneous Dissolutionof Individuality in a Greater Whole 85–86
87–90 I Became Infected with Rankian Ideas 87–90
91–97 The “Birth” of Client-Centered Therapy 91–97
98–103 Daimonic 98–103
104–107 Is This the Only Reality? 104–107
108–112 An Identity with the Cosmic Process 108–112
113–118 Who Am I? How Did I Come into the World? Why Was I Not Consulted? 113–118
119–123 I Was Born Beyond Psychology 119–123
124–133 References 124–133

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