ABSTRACT

This article, which is an extensively revised version of a paper given at PCE2021, discusses Rogers’ ‘relationship therapy’. It argues that this original relational turn needs to be revisited and re-envisioned, especially if Rogerian and person-centered and experiential therapies are to seed, grow, and flourish in different soil from that whence it originally sprung. The article is framed in terms of one of the themes of the conference, that is, contact, culture, and context. Thus, the first part of the article considers the history of relationship therapy (that is, contacting our history); the second part acknowledges the original conceptual framework of client-centered psychology and discusses two concepts that are based on and embody relationship therapy, i.e. diagnosis and contact (thereby representing the culture of this approach to psychology); and the third part offers some reflections how person-centered theory and practice needs to adapt to local conditions (that is, to its context) if it is to continue to be relational and relevant.

摘要

这篇文章是在 PCE2021 上发表的一篇论文的广泛修订版，讨论了罗杰斯的“关系疗法”。它认为，这种最初的关系转向需要重新审视和重新设想，特别是如果罗杰里安和以人为本的体验疗法要在与其最初发源地不同的土壤中播种、生长和繁荣。这篇文章是根据会议的主题之一，即接触、文化和背景来构建的。因此，文章的第一部分考虑了关系治疗的历史（即联系我们的历史）；第二部分承认来访者中心心理学的原始概念框架，并讨论了基于并体现关系疗法的两个概念，即 诊断和联系（从而代表这种心理学方法的文化）；第三部分提出了一些思考，以人为本的理论和实践要继续保持相关性和相关性，需要如何适应当地条件（即适应其背景）。