PSYCH 2B03 Lecture 5: Rogers
6 Dec 2018
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This can happen verbally, or through other forms of symbols. Everything individuals experience is based on the organismic valuing process: experiences aligned with the actualizing tendency are valued, approached, and maintained, experiences contrary to the actualizing tendency are unsatisfying, and are avoided or ended. An experience is detected before it reaches consciousness. If an experience is inconsistent with the introjected conditions of worth, anxiety is produced. Experience can then be distorted or denied before it causes anxiety. The person accurately symbolizes only experiences that are consistent with conditions of worth. Self is therefore denied experiences valuable to it. Experiences that may be conductive to growth must be denied or distorted. Incongruence is the basis for all cases of maladjustment and pathology. For rogers, we have only one motive: the actualizing tendency, our innate need to fully realize all our potentials.
