“Self-actualization” represents a concept derived from humanistic psychological theory and, specifically, from the theory created by Abraham Maslow. Self-actualization, according to Maslow, represents ...

In the 1960s, the psychotherapist Carl Rogers popularized “encounter groups” and “client-centered therapy” and wrote influential essays on becoming the “self which one truly is.” He peddled this ...

In recent years, there has been much written about posttraumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth is when people report positive psychological changes following trauma. The term posttraumatic growth was ...

Dr. Carl Rogers, 85, an author and psychotherapist whose influence has spanned decades, died Wednesday night of a heart attack after surgery for a broken hip at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, Calif.