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for the paper Consider the eras, life histories, and personalities of Freud and Rogers. Identify two research articles published in the last 5
years: one that investigates a psychoanalytic or Freudian construct and one that investigates a client-centered, humanistic, or Rogerian
construct. Write a 1,100 word paper about Freud and Rogers that addresses the following: • Provide a summary of each article,
highlighting the processes that contemporary psychologists use to develop the theories of Freud and Rogers. • Explain their views of
human nature and their worldviews as expressed in their respective theories. • Which aspect of their theory do you think would be
different if they were alive and working today? • Explain how social and cultural factors influenced the development of Freud’s and
Rogers’ respective theories of personality. Format your paper according to APA guidelines. Incite text and references.
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Perhaps the biggest difference between Rogers and Freud is that for Freud, the
unconscious and its continuing influence are the focus of psychoanalysis, and for Rogers it is
the structure of one‟s life and conscious commitment to the correct goals. For Freud,
psychoanalysis was essentially about building a clear and coherent narrative of one‟s life, in
order to reach some narrative resolution that allows forward movement. Given that he was
writing in the inter-war period in Europe, this is a clear indication of the societal concerns at
the time, in the age when grand ideologies were failing. Rogers, coming later and in America,
was born into a society in which new structures for the world were being developed, and
where the concern was more about constructing and enabling a brighter future through
clinical rigour, a concern which comes through in his own theories.
As a result, the two papers chosen reflect the core concerns of these two theorists. The
first is “What is “person-centered”? A posthumous conversation with Carl Rogers on the
development of the person-centered approach” by Kirschenbaum (2012), which attempts to
look at whether his vision of a person-centred approach has actually taken off, and if so how.
The second paper is “Back to basics: How the discovery of transference is relevant for
coaches and consultants today” by de Haan, (2011), which takes Freud‟s central theory of
transference, the „re-emergence of past relationships within present relationships‟,
specifically in regard to the concept‟s validity when considering organisational behaviour
rather than the individual.
de Haan‟s paper is something that Freud would probably approve of, at least in its
application of transference and psychoanalytic concepts at the level of the...