ABSTRACT

This article takes as its starting point the Emerson epigraph chosen by Rogers for his seminal book Client-Centered Therapy, and discovers that Rogers also acknowledged the ‘deep influence’ that Emerson and the transcendental school had on his personal life and philosophy. It proposes evidence of this influence, noticing similarities in the writings and biographical details of the two men. It also extrapolates a question and proposes it for further research – the possibility that Rogers integrated Emersonian thinking into the development of the person-approach. The limited and interpretive reasoning for such an extrapolation is acknowledged. The article concludes that Emerson was one of many writers in literature, theology, philosophy, psychology, art and science with whom Rogers engaged over his lifetime, an eclectic contributed to Rogers’ fluid, ongoing, and ever-evolving creative synthesis. It also concludes that the question of whether Rogers’ use of the epigraph at the beginning of Client-Centered Therapy indicates a connection between Emerson and Rogers’ person-centered theory, is worthy of being asked.

摘要

本文以罗杰斯为其开创性著作《以客户为中心的治疗》选择的爱默生题词为出发点，并发现罗杰斯也承认爱默生和先验学派对他的个人生活和哲学的“深刻影响”。它提出了这种影响的证据，注意到两人的著作和传记细节的相似之处。它还推断了一个问题并提出了进一步的研究——罗杰斯将爱默生思想整合到个人方法的发展中的可能性。承认这种推断的有限和解释性推理。这篇文章的结论是，爱默生是罗杰斯一生与之交往的众多文学、神学、哲学、心理学、艺术和科学作家之一，他是一位不拘一格的作家，他为罗杰斯的流畅性做出了贡献，持续不断的、不断发展的创造性综合。它还得出结论，罗杰斯在以客户为中心的治疗开始时使用题词是否表明爱默生和罗杰斯的以人为本理论之间的联系的问题值得提出。