Tag: science
The regulation of Parent, Child and Adult ego states
“Everyone carries their parents inside…also a little boy/girl” Eric Berne This article, and the diagrams are based on Games people play, by Eric Berne. It focuses on the internal dynamics between these different ego estates within the individual, almost as a prototype to Internal Family Systems. Ego states – as conceptualised by Eric Berne –…
The Good Life (according to Carl Rogers)
Ask people what they think makes for a good life and you will find many different answers. Some people will relate to achievements, possessions and other goal-led end-states. Others may become more philosophical: “to be happy”, “to be free of worries”. Very rarely, if ever, the good life will be what it’s happening right now. …
The seven stages of the counselling process according to Rogers
It did not appeal to me to review work we have done in the past. I decided rather to devote a year (…) to understand the process by which personality changes (…) but as the next year approached I realised the ideas I had formed were still unclear, tentative, hardly in the shape of a…
