PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Unconditional Love, Libido
14 Jun 2018
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Carl Rogers’ Self-Theory
The Phenomenal Field
- Everything currently or potentially available to consciousness
- Phenomenal = of or about phenomena
o The way in which we experience things
o Everything we are aware of
o Things we can immediately bring into consciousness
o You do’t otie the pressure of your seat at this urret oet ut he
brought awareness to it, you feel it
Actualizing Tendency
- He agrees we need to talk about an energy source
o Calls it the actualizing tendency – not libido
o All of the energy that we put into the fuller development of ourselves
o Think of it as an instinct to grow and be all that we can
o Seed planted inside us that knows how to grow
Organismic Valuing Process
- Plays the role i Rogers’ theory similar to how sex and aggressive instincts play in
Freud’s theory ad ho arhetypes play i Jug’s theory
- Inner compass – sense we have of the direction that leads us to grow more fully
- Leads us to approach experiences, situations that are likely to provide positive
contributions to growth
- Also leads us to reject situations inconsistent with actualizing
- What should attract us? What should repel us as dangerous?
- Oe of the ipliatios of this is that there is oly oe perso that kows what’s right
for you, ad that’s you. Noody knows better than you because we have an
organismic valuing process
Self
- All of this is developing the Self
- Everything that is me and not anyone else
- Babies are born without a self
- The Self always develops
- In order for our self to follow the path of organismic valuing process, we need to have
unconditional positive regard
Unconditional Positive Regard
- Carrying about valuing, loving a person regardless of who they are
- Regardless of their beliefs, opinions, behaviours
- Unconditional love
- You do’t eed this for the self to deelop, it’ll deelop o its o
- We eed it for the deelopet of the self that’s osistet ith the atualizig
tendency and especially the organismic valuing process
- We do’t alays get or pereie e’re gettig positie regard
o We think e’re gettig CONDITIONAL positie regard
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o I ill loe you if you do this
o We recognize there are conditions
o These are called: Conditions of Worth
o Parents may love us unconditionally but make it seem like their love is
conditional when they get mad at us
o We recognize there are standards we must meet in order to be loved
o We internalize those once externalize standards; the conditions of worth
become internal values
o We stop doig thigs eause o ad dad o’t like it it’s eause it turs
into our beliefs = IDEAL SELF
Ideal Self
- Rogers borrowed it completely from Freud
- Have to be careful with interpreting what it means
o Ideal self is bad
o “oeoe else’s ideal, ot yours
- Becomes the guide to choices
- Does’t eoe osistet ith atualizig tedey, becomes consistent with other
people’s eliefs
- We have feelings that experiences inconsistency with ideal-self = leads to incongruence
o The incongruent thoughts are detected and blocked from entering the
phenomenal field
o We’re ot ee aare of these feeligs that are incongruent EVEN THOUGH
they’re our thoughts
o They never get out of the unconscious part of the mind
o Equivalent to anxiety and repression
GOAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY IN ROGERS THEORY
- Minimize or eliminate the role of the ideal self in our life choices and re-establish the
organismic valuing process as the sole guide to the choices we make in life
- You and you alone know what is right for you
Conditions for Therapeutic Change
- Rogers says any relationship can be therapeutic for you
o Client and therapist must e i eah other’s pheoeal field
▪ You got to pay attention to the other person
▪ Be aware of what the other person is thinking and feeling
o Therapist must try to empathetically understand client
▪ Empathetically = share the pain and feeling the other has
o Therapist must provide unconditional positive regard
▪ Therapist is providing safe space in which the individual can say whatever
they want without fear of rejection or negative evaluation
▪ Accepted, valued, loved regardless of what they say
o Client must be aware of empathy and positive regard
▪ Know that the therapist is trying to understand empathetically
▪ This is a safe space where positive regard will be shared unconditionally
▪ Love the sinner
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Document Summary
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