TITLES AND ABSTRACTS

Rogers’ Interviews with Gloria and Kathy Revisited: A micro-analysis of the client-therapist interaction

ABSTRACT  In order to illustrate the use of the Processing Modes Scales of Sachse (1990a) two prototypical interviews of Rogers, respectively with Gloria and Kathy, were analyzed. It was hypothesized that Rogers would offer his clients high levels of ‘processing proposals’, and that, as a consequence, his clients would show high levels of processing, too. Indeed, Rogers’ processing proposals were much deeper than normally found, as were the processing modes by the two clients involved. It also turned out that Rogers took a more non-directive stance in his interview with Gloria, whilst in the interview with Kathy, ten years later, his position was more process-directive. It is suggested that this may be the result of a development in his therapeutic attitude from functioning as the client’s ‘alter-ego’ into more ‘presence’ in the therapeutic encounter.
 

ABSTRACT  The first part of the article presents a therapy for dissociated and traumatized clients. It is client-centered and experiential of orientation, with two phases. Prouty's approach adresses the clients' dissociative process in the first phase. Another therapeutic approach is needed in the second phase, when dissociation decreases and clients begin to integrate their trauma. The second part of the article deals with incidents near the end of therapy, when some clients relapse and function as they did in an earlier stage. This confuses therapists, who don't expect problems at this stage. These problems appear to contain crucial information. Once these are attended to properly, the therapy can resume its course. Examples are given of incidents and their underlying mechanisms. These late incidents require alertness, action, and exploration. When therapists have difficulty with this extra but crucial work, it is suggested that they find a replacement therapist.

The Person-centered Approach from an Existential Perspective

ABSTRACT  This paper deals with the question of how far existential issues are considered in the Person-centered Approach. Starting with the topic of existentialism and a short summary about its most inspiring promoters, a brief introduction of five approaches in existential therapy and their affinities with person-centered aspects is given. Thereafter the Person-centered approach in its classical tradition will be compared to and contrasted with existential perspectives, first outlining some parallels and then stressing the differences between the two orientations. The paper concludes with a discussion of the extent to which the Person-centered Approach has integrated existential concepts, and also, vice versa, what Person-centered Therapy has to offer an existential approach to therapy.

ABSTRACT  Upon coming into therapy the client first creates with the therapist a relationship space, within which then the reflection space develops. Reflecting on a felt sense occurs in the focusing space, and explicating it in the symbolization space. When new ideas pop up after the session, experiencing symbolizes itself in the self-symbolization space. The spaces imply each other, and can be organized in a scheme. We can differentiate distinct manners of problematic being, e.g. by the way the client enters each consecutive space. The client's manners of being are differentiated not so much on the macro-level (e.g. depressive or obsessional functioning) but on the micro-level, e.g. by self-criticism and rationalizing which interrupt to the person’s experiencing. In doing so we also can refine the necessary therapist responses; for example, how the therapist can respond to the rationalizing client so that this opens a way to the client’s experiential level.

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