He was born on January 8, 1902 in Ork Park, Chicago, USA. He continued to support the church's religious services while he was still a child. At the age of twenty, he represented the International Christian Conference in Piken, China. He then entered the Teachers Training College at Columbia University and obtained his MA and PHD degrees. He then turned to studies on children.
He became professor of clinical psychology at Ohio State University as he was experimenting with person-centered counselling. He had just published his second book, "Counselling and Psychotherapy".
In 1945, he opened a counseling center at the university of Chicago, which gave him an opportunity to try out his personal-centered counselling. In 1956, he became the first president of the American Academy of Psychiatry.
From 1957 to 1963, he was professor of psychology at the university of Wisconsin. In 1961, he published his famous book, "On Becoming a Person".
No comments:
Post a Comment